yaacoub / wwdc23-colins-origins

Colin's Origins

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

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✋ 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.

💭 Things to consider

• 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!

🐞 Known issues

• 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.

🖼️ Assets

Audio

• Peter Yaacoub, "Emotional Maths". All rights reserved.
• Peter Yaacoub, "SFX Button Tap". All rights reserved.
• Peter Yaacoub, "SFX Correct". All rights reserved.
• Peter Yaacoub, "SFX Exit". All rights reserved.
• Peter Yaacoub, "SFX Incorrect". All rights reserved.
• Peter Yaacoub, "SFX Success". All rights reserved.

Images

• Peter Yaacoub. All rights reserved.

Fonts

• Creative Fabrica Fonts, "Before the Rainbow". Single Sales License.
• Freebies, "16x8PXL". Single Sales License.

🌞 Inspiration

• A mash of years-old ideas I had saved in my notes.
• Family!
• Mixing art and technology, just like last year!

🥚 Easter Eggs

• 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!

📚 Ressources

• Wikipedia, "Blend modes".
• Wikipedia, "Brightness".
• Wikipedia, "Color model".
• Wikipedia, "Colorfulness".
• Wikipedia, "Hue".
• Wikipedia, "HSL and HSV".

🔩 More possible improvements

• Create a Free Play mode and more Story Modes!
• Extend localization.
• Improve accessibility.
• Publish the project on the App Store, as should all my older submissions!