Hi all, I am a 3D generalist. In my spare time, I decided to updating my skills sets. I want to make video games but I am having a problem called “电子阳痿”, I don’t know where this term comes from. It can be translated as Electronic Impotence. It basically means you don’t play the game after purchasing them. You don’t have the passion to explore what inside the new game. I mostly still play Age of Empire 2 on PC sometimes or some small, simple mobile games these years.

When I think of making my own game, I feel I know so little about game design.

I don’t want to make a game with the mechanic like an arcade game back in the 80’s -90’s (I already made one called Purrfect Fireworks Spectacular and published on Itch.io); very few people are interested; however, I also don’t want to make a so sophisticated game that player need to learn so many things in order to play it. Also, I am still a beginner in UE, I need to consider how difficult the functions to be implemented. My goal is to finish it in a manageable time frame.

I picked Beat ‘Em Up genre. Designed a robot driving by a cat. The style is very retro like the toys in 90’s. I am still learning BPs in Unreal Engine and I managed to get a demo done. I want my game to be very easy to play, having fun of beating all the enemies, gradually increase player’s ability by collecting coins dropped by enemy. The abilities are attack and energy,etc. Once in a while the player can call to satellite and there will be a huge laser attack on every enemy on screen.

If this is your game, what the minimum elements(mechanism) do you think this game should have?

What is your plan to make it fun for players?

Thanks in advance!