A game a day with Erika Game #1
Today, I am featuring Frosting Frenzy, a simple cake game where you apply frosting and place decorations on your cake to match a quirky design prompt before the timer runs out.
This is my first game in the top picks/players' choice. This was one of my early games is currently sitting at 2.2 million plays with a 1:07 median time.
The game itself was easy to play and had a great core loop. People were having fun just completing orders and making cakes.
One of the things that the game eventually faced was loading issues, and some people didn’t know what to put for certain orders.
If I had to recreate the game again (which I did), I would focus on adding lazy loading and object pooling to make sure the game ran well. I would also add clearer instructions for the cake orders.
One of the things I learned was that a basic game like my cake game can do well, but having long loading times can hurt it. The last thing I realized was that even though this game was created fast, I would still want to spend extra time on future cake games to make sure everything is polished and play-tested normally.
Check out my game Frosting Frenzy on Astrocade below:
https://www.astrocade.com/games/frosting-frenzy/01KEJBDATWVC3QZVGK6TK56XRD
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