New game project

When they first announced that we would get our first real game project to work on I got pretty excited. What could the genre be? Yeah, none other than a wonderful shoot ‘em up! Boy did my ears get tickled! Before I applied for this education I felt that shoot ‘em ups and RPGs where my types of games to design. Even though shoot ‘em ups may be pretty easy to code and animate and this coming from a rookie who can’t neither, I think their main point is to test our ability to design a game. I bet they thought something along “hey make a ‘fairly easy’ game yet still interesting to play”, and I think that’s really genius. Since the education I chose is 70 % game design and 30 % programming, it was nothing but a good move to see how well we can create a game with simple mechanics and still keep it interesting. I’m so ready I feel like Midna: