Beansjam

I participated in this 48 h game developement competition together with my sister. She made the graphics while I did the programming. The theme 'space mafia' was announced at the start of the competition.

I have already participated in two other 48 h game jams before. In my opinion, the key for a good game that actually gets finished is implementing an idea that is both simple and innovative. Moreover I wanted the game to run in any modern browser without having to download anything. This greatly increases the probability that people actually play the game if they are interested. Therefore I wrote a pure HTML5 game. For programming I used Typescript. This is a object-oriented script language that transpiles to Javascript and makes it easier for people like me that are more familiar with languages like C# than with Javascript. I also used Phaser as an engine. This makes it easy to quickly get a prototype running. For example, nice tweening animations can be implemented in a single line. The maps can be created easily using the Tiled map editor.

The goal of the game is to grab all aliens in a space ship and beat them up in a thrash container. The final game and more screenshots are available here.