« Math It » was made for the bevy game jam 2.

This article sums up the development and my feeling about it.

Before

I was warming up for the jam with a « rythm based game », I like to prepare for a jam before the start so I can reuse recent knowledge.

This time though, I didn’t find a good and simple game idea combining « rythm » and « combine », so I started from « real » scratch.

Jornet

Shoutout to FrancoisM for providing https://github.com/vleue/jornet, which probably saved me a day of implementing a simple leaderboard solution, especially now that heroku announced its free plan dropped. I look forward to see more and more game jam incorporating leaderboards 👍

Theme

I didn’t have much time to allow to the game jam, so I really wanted a clear plan to what I would do, I brainstormed a simple « math game » in a few minutes before going to bed, the rules had to be simple enough that I would remember them the next day! “Compute the target number with given math operations and numbers” did fit 🏆.

Bonus point: I was confident I wouldn’t have to cut much features to make my submission 👍

Coding

Coding followed, not much to say, I implemented the main game in 2d sprites because bevy UI is not my cup of tea (yet), there’s been complaint about lacking grid functionality, so I decided not to bother.

• I did find time to give as much feedback as possible to Jornet, even firing a few PR and issues 👌.
• I did a clean loop with different screens via states.
• I had to stop early but I managed improvise a progression, where the first level is rather fortunate, because we cannot fail it, perfect opportunity to learn the controls!
• I shared it a bit among friends and on discord, the game was well received, mission accomplished 🎉

Although my submission is missing a lot of polish (feedbacks, saving system, more operations, better colors… I’m happy with the result and look forward to its rating 🤞.

Happy voting!

I did reset the leaderboard at the start of the voting period, to have a good experience at the race to the level 20.

There was 520 total scores when I did reset, my wild guess is around 30 different people tried it, Thanks to everyone and…

Congratulations to « Clean Mandibuzz » who was the first and the only one to beat level 20 and beyond during the development time 🏆🏆🏆 !

If you’re feeling proud of your result or just want to share, comment your fun pseudonym in the game comment https://vrixyz.itch.io/math-it and make sure to vote ❤️❤️ https://itch.io/jam/bevy-jam-2/rate/1675763

Happy mathing 🔢 !