Mikas Forest

“A puzzle game created for Mini Ludum Dare #69 where you flip tiles as other creatures attempt to flip them back, and send creatures of your own to intercept.”

Mika’s Forest was featured in this article and this video by Jupiter Hadley!

Mika’s Forest was the first game I developed solo, and hopefully the last. I created the music, pixel art, narrative and programming for this game, and had to rush to meet the 2 week jam deadline.

The premise was to combine two game mechanics I liked from other games: using “pets” to take out enemies from afar and trying to “cover” all of a level to win like Splatoon or Bomberman Reversi mode. This was also my first foray into tile generation, which I ended up using in a lot of my games.

I learned a lot working on this, namely that two weeks is far too short to test out a puzzle game and that solo development is rough. While I did enjoy working on the various parts, I like being able to sink time into a specific area and split work as needed.