Wacky Duels Post-Mortem - First game made in creating a game a month for a year challenge

One of the top things that I personally thought went well was the death sequence. I wanted to make it feel good for the player to kill the enemy, but I also wanted to make it dramatic so that when the player got killed they instead of getting frustrated get a little laugh out of it.

Another part that came out good were the levels that Johnny and I created. We created 46 levels for single player and I believe we did a good job keeping things interesting with the level design even though we really only had 3 major obstacle assets. (static stone blocks, moving stone blocks and barrels that players could shoot in order to try and launch them at the other player or AI)

The music and sound design for the game were other points that were pretty spot on. The way the music transitioned between the countdown into the gameplay music went really well along with the timing of the death sounds with the actual death animation.

One thing that we ran into was trying to figure out how to achieve same screen multiplayer since Bluetooth would have taken too long to implement. It took us a couple of days to figure out.

A problem with the actual game was that the player was on the right side of the screen while their target was on the left. This caused confusion for some players initially because on mobile games it is usually the player is on the left while their target or goal is on the right. 

The controls for the player also served as a problem to people as the aiming wheel was a bit tiny which lead to it being harder for the player to control where they shot. 

Another downfall I believe we had was that we only had 3 major obstacles for the 46 levels and even though I believe we did a good job with the level design with what we had it may have been better if we had the time to add a couple more in there and introduced them over time to keep the player interested and engaged. 

We both want to comment and organize our code better moving forward. Since we have a month for each project we kinda dive into it and once one problem is figured out we move to the next and because of this, the code can get a bit unorganized. I guess it is good that we communicate on a daily basis but we still want to work on better organizing code.

We also want to be more organized with our scheduling and have task laid out for each person to be done by a certain date. With this months project, we are using Trello now as a todo list which has helped a lot.

Along with being more organized with scheduling we wanted to make small milestones for eachother so we can keep up pace with one another and to try to minimize crunch as much as possible.

We also want to give us more time for polish in the game and give ourselves a couple of days to play test, fix any bugs or add anything we thing that would improve player experience.