During the creation of this game, I learned a lot of new things for 2D development and found the creation process to be quite enjoyable. For the most part the biggest takeaways I got from making this game was creating a Scene and Score manager for the game along with basic game mechanics like programming movement. On top of this I got to add goofy sound effects to make the game feel more immersive, along with very basic sound effects. I also got to make special collectables that have their own mechanics where one takes away horizontal movement from the player for a short interval & one that takes away jumps for a short interval.

The struggling came around at the end of development where everything was mostly completed. I learned very quickly how changing the values of a couple things can sometimes lead to everything breaking and requiring fixes. For the most part, the errors I would run into would be null reference errors and very minor things like my score system glitching out over a missing colon or symbol in general.

Overall, this game was enjoyable to make and I learned a lot from this experience. If you want, you're welcome to look at the programming here!