duck park release -1st ever game release!

I'm very excited to announce that I have just finished and released my first ever video game! If you have ever wanted to waddle around the woods as a duck, quacking and eating bugs whilst listening to the sounds of the forest and lo-fi music, this may be the short little game for you!

On a real note though, despite how small this little forey into games development is, I'm very proud of this. I'm not a technically minded fella, and scripting is NOT my forte, but I've always wanted to make a game, and now I have. And who knows, maybe in time I will make another?

I wanted to make a game that is mellow and relaxing, which I think is important for a lot of us who experiance anxiety and depression, especially at a time like this. I came up with the idea after I booted up a game I wanted to play, and found that I was so stressed, I couldn't even start playing it. So I made this game in response to that, a little haven of calm in a rather turbulant world. A reminder that there is still good in this world, all around us if we but look. 

In terms of the technical execution, I'm paticularly happy with the aethestic, I really like the flat tones and the orthographic camera I chose. Being colourblind, making artistic decisions like that can be...interesting. An early build had "grass" that turned out to be yellow, not green, so things could have turned out looking very different indeed! And I'm very happy with the music, I think it fits the mood quite well. 

But I'd love to know what you guys think of it, and if it made you happy as it has me!