Genre: Minigames
Project started on: October 14th, 2022
Project ended on: October 30th, 2022
Approximate time spent on project: 15 hours
Elfie’s Day Off is my entry for this year’s “A Game By Its Cover” jam where you take a fake cart from an exposition called Famicase and make a game with it. I really wanted to make a very small game that I could do alongside my day job with a small scope and not a lot of technical hurdles, but I also wanted to try to make a wario-ware like microgame collection, and I think it works! Here’s the cart that inspired me the game;
About the game
I just went along and created the nine minigames, then the connecting tissue around them. Each game has ten difficulty levels and there is some text that changes from level to level. The games are
Fishing: Catch all the fishes without grabbing a bomb!
Breakout: Eat all the chocolates without letting Elfie drop down below
Simon Says: Find your way to the forest by remembering the arrows
Video game: Jump over the enemies in this arcade classic
Pipe maze: Find the right pipe to get to your game console!
Balance: Don’t fall off the balancing board! That counts as yoga, right?
Conveyor Belt: Drop everything from the conveyor belt except Elfie!
Bowling: Hit all the pins out of the lane
Pachinko: Grab the peanut butter at the bottom of the machine!
