Timeline

1. Saturday was spent implementing the physics of billiards in CoffeeScript;
2. Sunday (afternoon) was used  to put together the game mechanic main ingredients: the goodies will be GREEN, the baddies will be RED, the player wiil be grey and the controls will feel both weird and funny;
3. Monday (lunchtime) I got the weird controls tested by 5 real-life testers.

What went right

• CoffeeScript to make a game in a single 500-line file: no library, ie plain JavaScript under the hood;
• I did not use nor make graphics assets;
• testing with Firefox, Chrome, IE (v > 10) and Opera;
• I eventually got the game balancing right on 20 levels (ready for more…);
• working with Linux on a computer with a tiny 750 MB RAM and the same amount of swap space.

What did not go so well

• most of the physics stuff I wrote on Satruday was not used in Greeny GRUB;
• some (minor) sound issues;
• not enough votes!

If I had to do it again

• I would stick to an HTML game with CoffeeScript.
• single file programs are handy to try out different options.
• again, I would ask myself whether using a game/physics library is a better idea than writing everything from scratch.

Thank you to

• my real life testers who gave me quick precious feedback early in the project;
• those of you who commented on the game or rated it for the past 3 weeks;
• Spouki who earned me a massive 1 vote because he is cute.

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