We took our time, but we finally made it! So here it is:<\/p>\n
What went right?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>– The creative process<\/em><\/p>\n We did some brainstorming friday night on \u201cminimalism\u201d, called it a day and returned to discuss some of our ideas early on Saturday morning. As we stated before, we love alliteration (\u201cthe occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words\u201d) so we decided to take a shot at minigolf (some minimalistic minigolf). We thought about the constituent elements of minigolf (a ball, a hole, some obstacles and a swing) and wonder: how can we make this even \u201csimpler\u201d?<\/p>\n – Control mechanic<\/em> <\/p>\n A nice video we watched:<\/em>
\n Control mechanic is a core part of lots of games. Some time ago, we interviewed Simon from Simogo<\/a> (a great game studio!) and he told us: \u201cWe usually start out with some control mechanic, and then build a game around that.\u201d Well, we did that and started our \u201cminigolf simplification process\u201d by thinking about a \u201cminimalistic swing\u201d that includes only a radius as a golf club. With this mechanic, we achieved to reduce two inputs (power and direction) into only one action: drawing a radius. Player would draw a radius holding the mouse click (or the swipe, as we intend to port it to iOs & Android!) and when released it would rotate anticlockwise in order to hit the ball. The more it rotates, the harder the hit! So power and direction all-in-one control scheme!<\/p>\n
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