What inspire me ?

How can I start this? This game is not what I really wanted to make, but it turned out like this. I love rage games, especially "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy." The concept of a guy sitting inside a pot and climbing a mountain with a hammer for some reason inspired me. Besides that, we have Jump King, a simple game with great pixel art... Then I realized I could make something like that.

Control

Everything started with the slime. What makes other rage games so difficult is not the gameplay or how you control the character. "Getting Over It" is just you swinging the hammer around with your mouse, Jump King is just pressing a button, and Only Up is just simple walking and climbing mechanics. It's not difficult to understand, but how to pick the right one for the slime? What do slimes do? They jump. But if we just let them move with A W S D or jump with SPACE, it’s nothing new. Then I remembered a kind of game that everyone used to play at least once when they were still a child—something so simple but so addictive... GOLF GAME.

Level Design

Drag and jump. Simple as that. Then comes the map design. I wanted to make something fun and new, so I returned to what inspired me. Bennett Foddy just put random things in his game and made you climb on it. But I didn’t want to do that, so what did I do? I drew and painted the whole map. Using tiles or putting random things in is boring, so... I drew everything on one layer. If you print the whole thing out, you’d have a painting of a randomness tower over 3 meters or 9.8 feet tall.

Struggle

Making the game, as you can see, seems quite simple, but making everything work the way it should is a never-ending nightmare. But at last, everything went smoothly. I thought it would be the end when I finally published my game, and I could see people playing it. It’s not the first time I’ve made a game, but I’ve never published my game before. I got stuck for a week, waiting for my game to show up on the search bar, but nothing happened. At least my friends could still play it.