Colour Match - Godot Game

Hyper Casual Games

I recently read an article about hyper casual games and also have been watching a few videos on YouTube from Dilmer Valecillos where he talks about some of the simple games that he has released on the app store. This really intrigued me as I've always struggled to stay motivated on some of my personal projects and I believe a lot of this was due to project scope. I was simple choosing projects that were too large for a single person to stay motivated enough to complete.

That's when I decided to come up with a really simple game Idea and see if I could take it to completion.

Godot

Along with choosing a project of a small enough size I also needed to choose the correct tooling that would enable me to keep that project scope small. I decided to pick up the Godot game engine as it's a fairly established engine and also is free and open source.

There will be some what of a learning curve to learning the engine but that would be the case if I had chosen Unity/Unreal/Other Game Engine. Also I though I am focusing on making small mobile games that something like Unity might be overkill. Finally I found out that Godot has bindings for Python which really impressed me. I am going to focus on doing everything using the GDScript for this first project to make following the tutorials and documentation as easy as possible. It is always good to know that the option is there though.

Colour Match

Okay so the game idea I have currently thought of is a colour match game. Here is the basic process for a single level:

• The player will be shown a particular colour for a number of seconds over the whole screen and the player is expected to memorise what colour it was.
  
• The player will then need to press their finger on the screen, which will begin the level.
• A starting colour will be shown on the background and will begin cycling through the colour ranges.
• The player will remove their finger from the screen when they think the matching colour is on the screen.

This is only the simplest form of the idea and what I'm considering MVP(Minimum Viable Product). There are other ideas I have for scaling the difficulty and player interaction up but I don't want to start with too much at once.

Okay so that's my simple game idea, I am hoping to make good progress on it.

Thanks