<h1 id="juice-and-polish">Juice and Polish<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#juice-and-polish"></a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Main Principle: The game should react to the players actions - it should feel good</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="ways-to-spice-things-up-action-games">Ways to spice things up action games<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#ways-to-spice-things-up-action-games"></a></h2>
<ul>
<li>Add sounds and animations</li>
<li>Decrease enemy HP</li>
<li>Increase shooting rate / add more enemies</li>
<li>Bigger bullets</li>
<li>Muzzle flash (cheap way: first frame of a bullet is a circle)</li>
<li>Faster bullets</li>
<li>Impact effects</li>
<li>Hit animations (so you know the enemy was hit)</li>
<li>Enemy knockback</li>
<li>Permanence (leave traces of combats in the stage)
<ul>
<li>Destructible environment/props</li>
<li>Dead bodies... shells</li>
<li>Smoke fading away</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Camera lerp (lag behind the player)</li>
<li>Camera position (show what's in front of the player/what's important)</li>
<li>Screenshake</li>
<li>Camera kick (moving back the camera when shooting)</li>
<li>Player knockback (when shooting you are pushed back)</li>
<li>Pause time on impact (even if it's just a frame)</li>
<li>More bass in the sound effects</li>
<li>Random (big!) explosions</li>
<li>Death animation (slow fall and speed up again when on the floor)</li>
</ul>
<p>For Roguelike turns specifically <a href="/digital-garden/notes/yhs8ayz3oe3ra8kca2dglvx">Juice for Roguelikes</a></p>
<h2 id="references">References<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#references"></a></h2>
<ul>
<li><img src="/digital-garden/assets/youtube-icon.svg" alt="Youtube Icon" style="height:1rem;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdEqssNZ-U">Vlambeer - The Art of Screenshake</a></li>
<li><img src="/digital-garden/assets/youtube-icon.svg" alt="Youtube Icon" style="height:1rem;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu-Qe66AvtY">Juicing your Cameras with Math</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="more-references">More References<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#more-references"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.09201.pdf">Designing Game Feel. A Survey</a> (Clipped in Joplin)</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<strong>Children</strong>
<ol>
<li><a href="/digital-garden/notes/yhs8ayz3oe3ra8kca2dglvx">Juice for Roguelikes</a></li>
</ol>
<hr>
<strong>Backlinks</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="/digital-garden/notes/6l8bkr9dd1y2gki01z3t80e">Game Development</a></li>
</ul>

Juice and Polish

digital-garden

Welcome to my little corner of the internet

# Welcome to my little corner of the internet

Hey, everyone!

I'm Kevin and this page is my own shot at a Digital Garden[^1].

This is a low-barrier[^2] experiment for myself to organize my thoughts and publish content and maybe find like-minded
individuals to connect with.

This space will slowly evolve over time. Feel free to [[contact_me]] if you want to get in touch.


## Topics I care about
- [[areas.gamedev]]
- [[areas.software-development]]
- Christian Faith and how it relates to several other areas
  - [[reference.faith-and-work]]
  - Faith and Creativity/Art/Media
- [[reference.adhd]]
- [[Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)|areas.pkm]]

## Media I enjoy
- 🇯🇵 Anime/Manga
  - Steins;Gate
  - Attack on Titan
  - Death Note
- 📺 TV Series
  - Twelve Monkeys
  - Dark
  - Deep Space 9
- 🎥 Movies
  - Big Fish
  - Memento
- 📖 Books
  - Das Haus der Geschichten (Thomas Franke)
  - The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
- 🎮 Video Games
  - Secret of Mana (SNES)
  - Outer Wilds
  - Undertale


[^1]: I recommend the explanation on [Joschua's Garden](https://joschuasgarden.com/Digital+garden) and his digital garden in general.

[^2]: I personally thought several times about starting a blog for sharing game development, software engineering tidbits/ramblings but my tendency for perfectionism especially with regard to minor details like names, design, style as well as the perceived pressure of having to regularly output some kind of meaningful content stopped me from actually going through with it until now.
