Flappy Jam: Risk of Bird

I recently delivered my entry for the Flappy Jam, which consisted of making a game similar to Flappy Bird, to show support to it's maker Nguyen Dong, who had to go through a very distasteful experience of receiving tons of destructive criticism related to Flappy Bird's quality and visual assets, and after not being able to handle the pressure he decided to take the game off the radar to get some peace. Because of this, the Flappy Jam was dedicated to not let hate win.

The premise was to: "Make a hard, almost unplayable game. Use assets inspired (not ripped) from classics..." Honestly I didn't pay much attention to the second sentence because well... while thinking about what game to use as the visuals for my Flappy game I fixed my mind on Risk of Rain, if you havn't played it yet I strongly suggest you do, because it's incredibly fun and with its own visual style it looks beautiful.

I wanted to emulate that visual style because I've always had a thing for pixel-art, and Risk of Rain's is pretty much awesome.

I literally made the game within 1 hour using unity, of course the game only consisted of a bunch of boxes moving from right to left and a small box trying to not get hit. There's something strangely refreshing in making such a small game, maybe it's because I'm not used to actually finishing a game so quickly... yeah, that's it.

Anyway, the gameplay was done and then I set to start making my own version of Risk of Rain. I really need to say that I didn't copy a single pixel from the actual game, all was made using the game itself as a reference (you can tell because the colors are not even the same, and some stuff doesn't look as good).

After I had finished with the art it was time to add some sounds, and wow, I did have a lot of fun making my robot guy explode over and over again after I was finished.

The resulting game was this:

I seriously enjoyed making this small and simple game, I feel like I may have learned some pixel-art skills right there, wohooo!