This week, we learned about game poems and also how making game poems can also help us make better games. Game poems are short, using mechanics as a metaphor to capture and convey feeling. Making game poems helps us know how to strip away the unnecessary elements in the game and focus on the expression and the emotion that the game is trying to achieve.
We also had a Bitsy games jam, in which we had to create a short game using Bitsy. I teamed up with Derry, and we decided to create a game about confrontation. The idea is that the main character is trying to confront someone, but he keeps hesitating and thinking of excuses to delay it, but in the en,d he still has to do what needs to be done.
Reflection:
It was challenging for me to make a game poem in Bitsy since Bitsy was intended to make an adventure, narrative-focused game, and when you make game poems, the mechanics should be more open
since it’s the main way to convey the metaphor of the game
But overall, I learned how to capture feelings and connect those feelings with game mechanics and story.
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