Colin's Origins

September 21, 2024 · View on GitHub

A fourth year and a fourth thank you for making this competition possible!

✋ To-do before running

In rare cases, build errors occur. Cleaning the build folder should be the solution.
Please set the destination as "My Mac (Designed for iPad)" and run the app on fullscreen for the best possible experience.

Building this project started one week after the challenge announcement due to classes, but I'm not making excuses!
Conceiving game mechanics aimed at children and adults is no easy game, but I did my best!
Creating all visual and sound assets was one of my objectives every time I participated. This time I did it!
Gathering knowledge from my older submissions was essential, especially for UIKit, SwiftUI, and SpriteKit.
Realizing that I could have made the game on one level, I still kept the objective of making the learning process enjoyable and understandable.
Taking the opportunity of making this project to learn new concepts is always one of my goals. This year: color theory!
Wishing to speed up the experience, you can tap on the text bubble to skip the typing animation!

Changing the AVAudioPlayer's volume or having two instances play simultaneously for the first time causes minor audio artifacts and stutter.
Having UIView animations running, presenting a new view controller, and then going back stops them. It's not clear if this is intended behavior.

Colin's name derives from the word "Color" and beautifully rhymes with "Origin".
Shay's name derives from the word "Shade", which is terminology for a color mixed with black.
Colin and Shay are coincidentally both Gaelic names.
When the clouds hide part of the sun or the moon, the scene dims down.
In most levels, Colin and Shay appear from the side in new and unexpected ways.
Throughout the levels, the sky has the same hue. Only the brightness and saturation appropriately change.
There are fewer cars during the dawn than the day, and no cars at night.
Levels 1.3, 2.3, and 3.4 have a wordplay in their title, as probably all titles should.
In Level 3.1, the dialog ends with Shay being sad. Colin is alone in pushing Shay to exit the scene.

There are undoubtedly more that I forgot to mention!