Blog - 📚-14- What's a-Stackin'?

14th March 2025

The next game I'm working on is still missing Stacks.

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I'm starting to think it might be a good idea to scrap it and just go with something completely different. Not because I don't like the game, but because the only way I can think to add a stack would impact the overall speed of the game, and right now the speed of the game is what's keeping it interesting.

So, maybe put this on hold, and come up with something entirely dissimilar.

All change!!

The gameplay is currently as-such.

You'd fly around, there's slow meteors falling to the ground, you'd rush down and grab a stack of rockets, fly up and fire them at the meteors.
But the faster the player controls, the faster the meteors have to be to keep things moving.
.. And the faster the meteors fall, the more frantic you have to be to grab the stacks of rockets..
... .. And the faster you have to be to do that, the less control of Platdude you have in the air.

Vice versa, if you slow everything down so it's controllable, but also playable, then it gets quite quite boring.

Also, is that all the Stack is..? Just a stack of rockets?
That wasn't really the point of Stacks, now, was it?

OK, so scrap that.
I've got 2 more Mondays to fill. The upcoming Monday's game is about 90% ready to go and should be easily finishable in a few short minutes. Or an hour.. or something.
But there's 2 Mondays left in the month.

Hmmm.
What to do..?
Any stack suggestions, post 'em in the comments, or the Discord.

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