"Okay, I need to learn buttons." microStudio; Min-Maxing

Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast!

It is a joyous day for pancake lovers everywhere, and a joyous week in the Clubhouse for Lydia who successfully made a thing using code! WOW! She shares her experience learning how to make buttons (and everything else) in microStudio. Then the Nice Hosts get real about their experiences with min-maxing in games. You know it's a good topic when it promises at least one spinoff topic so buckle up.

Also in this episode: Mark is doing level design when he should be playing Donkey Kong Bonanza, new laptop(!), and the existential horror of the cozy game genre.

0:12:09

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Lydia's starting point for her incremental learning plan.

"A Paragraph Signing"

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Lydia's Experiment 1 - Tutorial

Press space to start. Use the arrow keys to move the slime to the cookie.

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Lydia's Experiment 2 - Buttons Practice

Click the heart to add it to the skeleton’s chest

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Lydia's Experiment 3 - Build a Skeleton

Click on the buttons to add silly organs to the skeleton. Keep clicking the button to cycle through your options for that organ.

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Lydia's Experiment 4 - Despawn Practice

Press space to add 10 seconds to the timer. Click correct or incorrect to add or subtract points to the score. Clicking spawns sparkles!

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0:37:00

Min-Maxing