River of Coin Final Submission RNDGAME JAM II

Hello!

We are excited to share with you all the latest update of river of coin, 0.3.4!
This update brings the following changes:

• Update to visuals
• Sound feedback
• Cleaning up of the game loop, and more feedback on game loop.
• An onboarding screen

This was the first time we joined the RND Game Jam, and we had a blast!
The name river of coin was generated using the RNDGAME app, this was an inspiring way to get started with a project!

Challenges during development:

• Designing and implementing the scripts required for resource generation and management was more complex than initally expected.
• Clean and structured code is important, taking time to clean up the scripts was necessary.
• Hard to settle down on an art direction.

Take-away:

• Using Codecks as a project managament tool was very usefull for us (free for team size of less than 3).  By adjusting our project scope, and our planning intermittently, the project became less daunting and overwhelming.
• Sound feedback took less work than expected, and increased the game quality alot!
• The core loop became very clear through a quick test using dice and a deck of cards. By turning to a quick and dirty physical prototype right after we identified the high concept, we 'played' our way into a game loop that felt engaging.