Among a couple of Stencyl games I play tested this week, Mr. Goldfish (link: http://www.kongregate.com/games/Abigayl/mr-goldfish) captivated me the most. The reason may be I saw the potential of how I can use the ideas in this game to customize them in my game if I develop it on the Stencyl platform or its similar platforms.
Here is the instruction of how to play the game:
Here is the instruction of how to play the game:
As can be seen from the instruction and from my hands-on experience of playing the game, the success of playing this game depends considerably on the physical dexterity of moving the arrows on the keyboard of the player. There is no requirement of any mental skill or any possibility that playing this kind of game can help enhance the cognitive or mental skill of the player. All the player needs to do in this game is to move the fish forward in a way that it hits heart symbol to gain health and hits shield to get protected and at the same time it has to avoid hitting all the potential dangers which can reduce its health or blow it up.
The gameplay depends more on the skills of moving the fish forward rather than on the chance. The danger symbols and reward symbols are scattered here and there all over the game screen. The chances of hitting both dangers and rewards are almost the same. During the gameplay, the player needs the physical dexterity to move the fish properly to win the game.
Here is a screenshot of how the game screen looks like.
The gameplay depends more on the skills of moving the fish forward rather than on the chance. The danger symbols and reward symbols are scattered here and there all over the game screen. The chances of hitting both dangers and rewards are almost the same. During the gameplay, the player needs the physical dexterity to move the fish properly to win the game.
Here is a screenshot of how the game screen looks like.
The play matrix of the game
As said at the beginning, I'd love to adopt the ideas of this game and customize them into my game which will requires not only skills of moving the arrow keys on the keyboard like the player has to do in this game but also requires some mental calculation to play the game. The goldfish may carry a number in each level of the game and all the other enemy players contain random numbers of different values. What the player has to do is to hit the enemy players which are the multiples of the number that the goldfish carries to earn rewards. If the goldfish hits the wrong number, then it either loses health or is killed immediately.