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båtspillet

by @sgt

A boat game for 5+ age group! I was never much of a game developer, but recently my 5 year old son wanted to play a game so we decided to build one together. It's a boat game, you basically steer a boat in an isometric 2d world, transporting passengers, cargo etc between ports. As we designed it, the ideas just kept on coming. He made or directed a lot of the art inside of the game (even the audio), and we included friends and family as characters within the game. A lot of fun to build - hilarious at times. I used Lua and LÖVE2D, building basically a game engine for an isometric world, so that took significantly more time than expected. If you want to test it [1], please do, but keep in mind it's only in Norwegian, but I am sure most people would be able to figure it out as it's meant for age group 5 and up: [1] https://apps.apple.com/no/app/b%C3%A5tspillet/id6791630382 At this point our entire extended family and their kids, grandchildren etc are actually playing this, so it's been super fun.

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