My First Blog and My First Game

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Hey guys, so I am new to the DEV community and I am really excited to share my first blog about the first game that I created. The game was named as "Spheron-The ball game" because the protagonist of the game was obviously a 'sphere' and I don't know from where the 'spheron' name popped up in my head. But anyway, I created this game a long while ago back in 2020 while I was doing my undergrad, and I managed to complete the game and upload it to the PlayStore once the colleges were closed due to the pandemic. I guess I am thankful for that which I shouldn't be, but hey, I got a lot of free time to develop the game. The game was made using unity engine and C# as its prgramming language. As I was a beginner into game dev I looked into and learned from a lot of youtube tutorials on how to build a game using unity. Brackey's youtube channel helped me a lot, I am sure Unity devs would've at least heard of this channel once in their lifetime. I know that the game is not an extraordinary or over-the-top one but it was my first game so it holds a special place in my heart. The genre of the game is an endless runner type and you could also collect coins along the way. I would link the game at the bottom of the post so you guys can check it out if you're interested.

Controls

The controls are fairly simple

Touch the right side of the screen to move right
Touch the left side of the screen to move left

The objective of the game is to get the protagonist ie; the sphere to dodge all the obstacle that comes along the way without falling down from the platform, and increase the score to the maximum that you can. I've also created a coin system in the game so that the player can collect coins along the way which can later be used to buy different skins for the character, and also if the player dies midway it can be used for resurrection.

I've also incorporated ads into the app. And these are only reward ads so you don't have to worry about ads popping up here and there and annoying you every time. The ad is optional to the person playing the game. Once the player dies, a popup menu will come that has an ad button to resurrect the player and continue playing. So the ad is completely optional. I used google AdMob for the implementation of the ads. At first, I messed up with the ads. When I uploaded my game to the PlayStore I clicked on the ads many times myself on my own phone and google as the all-seeing eye came to know of it and blocked my AdMob account. But later it got resolved.

So this was my first blog. I know it took me 2 years to write a blog about the first game that I made, but hey, I wrote it at the end. And I hope to keep writing blogs on this wonderful platform. The next blog will likely be about the second game that I made and once it is done I will update the link to the blog here. So hope u guys enjoyed reading my blog and if you'd like to check out my game and give me feedback on it the link's down below.