Godot, GDScript - 4/1/2022 to 4/4/2022 - Programmer, Pixel Artist
DEATH AND TAXES is a short game about pushing papers and pedestrians off of ledges to try to obscure the evidence of your tax fraud. Submitted for Ludum Dare 50.
Short Postmortem: This is definitely one of my favorite projects I’ve worked on; it’s super polished and was my first time trying to set up a good system for cutscenes and simple animations, and I’m very happy with how the intro cutscene turned out. Unfortunately, the gameplay is a little abbreviated because of all the effort that went into the beginning of the game. I wish I would have spent a little more time designing fun levels or at least giving the gameplay more attention. It’s still fun and I’m super pleased with how it turned out but it’s a little more short than I would have liked. I think establishing the gameplay in an almost overkill, crystal-clear fashion might have helped with that - I think I stalled a bit when adding polish because I wasn’t completely sure of the gameplay. Overall, very happy with the results and I’m glad I got to try to do some new things in Godot. Placed 95th out of 2900! (And 31st in Humor!!)