Vicki and I decided to make a game for middle and high school students looking to learn synonyms/antonyms for their SATs without being bored to tears.
The idea is you’re a mad vocab scientist who is building an army of robots moving along a conveyor belt.
Each robot has two parts. The first half has a word on it, and the second half has the word’s antonym. Correctly matched, the two will magnetically attract and snap together. The more matches you make, the more robots you add to your army.
Then you get to take your robot army and go kill stuff!
12:12 AM
The mockup art working in Cocos2D
2:40 AM
If you drag a word's robot half to its antonym's half, they join together and make a robot!
4:30 AM
We’re calling it done for now. Animations for when the robots are matched, sounds, and music (by the awesome Phil Hassey – thanks!) have been added. Gameplay has been tweaked to include less words on the screen at once. A title screen and credits page have been added.
Screenshots
Title page
Less words on the page, less confusing
When the robots are completed, they light up and blink
Where we’d go from here:
-We only completed Stage 1 due to time. Stage 2 includes using your robot army to defeat a bunch of monsters; the more robots you managed to build, the more awesome you will be in this stage.
-Other levels, other robots, other types of words (synonyms, analogies).
-Tweaking the gameplay
-Adding in the story scenes! No game is complete without an archnemesis…
