Hi I’m Ranko and I made YOGO Derpina

The Good

– The game made people laugh. We have this expression ‘vesela‘ which roughly means ‘merry‘ it’s sort of internal joke among my crew, meaning that one of the most important attributes of a game is to radiate merry feelings, to be uplifting and charming in that intangible way that pertains to a product weather its poorly or greatly made.

– Solo. I made it in under 6 hrs after 48hrs of fiddling with bugs and real life.

– No coding. I haven’t the faintest about coding, scripting and the such. Yet thanx to the software I used, game was still made!

– Deeper than expected. While my intention was to show simple life’s truth in allegoric game, strategies players employed show emergent paralells between this game and reality. Some players tried to push Derpina in the corner, but as in love you can’t treat your partner like that. You have to deal with her problems, not push her away. As in life, this strategy proves fatal, because balls bouncing ricochet off Derpina much more, bringing downfall to the easy way out. As in love, in this game you have to give it your full attention and full effort.

The Bad

– Features lost. Trying to fix the bugs and failing at that cost me more than 48hrs so many features were cut off, making the game a bit plain. Some complained about it being too easy, and yea I could have made more levels or thought of more features (like Derpina moving around by herself). I also wanted to make silver and golden balls change roles as decoy and real thing depending on conversatino you wuold have with Derpina before each level. Ah well… it goes to “Derpina 2 The Return of Derpina” files I guess…

– Interaction. As a writer (my primary skill) I tend to rely on the power of words much too often. Games are about interaction and ideas are much better communicated in exchange between the player and the game. Again, if I would have more time I’d make nice interactive intro, maybe an interactive tutorial or smthg.

– No web version. Alas lack of coding skills means I had to rely on dev app’s only export feature – Windows (.exe). Would have been nice to have at least Flash version as well…

Kind regards, see you next time,

Ranko