Sprout is a 2D, pixel-art-styled arcade game that will allow you to dive into a captivating dystopian world.
In this thrilling adventure, you'll embark on a mission to protect the last surviving creature on a dying Earth, a little sprout, from hordes of robotic bugs that threaten its existence.

Sprout was developed by a team of four, two developers and two designers/game artists, during a two-weeks project at the Apple Developer Academy, hence the choice to develop a game for iphone only.

Gameplay

In this game, you'll get to be the guardian of the sprout, using your reflexes and strategic thinking to stop the relentless waves of robotic bugs and destroy them all before they kill your harmless protégé.
Using your iOS mobile device, you can swipe on the screen to attack the enemies and earn points, but be prepared for a relentless challenge as their numbers increase, and their speed intensifies.
In addition, each time a bug will complete its letal mission, the sprout will lose a live and, consequently, one of its 3 leaves, retiring back in the man-hole (or sprout-hole!) and then coming back up.
When the sprout will have lost all its lives/leaves, the game will end as the sprout will die for good.

Game mechanics and contributions

As one of the two developers of our team, I took charge of coding the main mechanics of the game. This involved implementing the spawning of the enemies as well as their eventual demise.
Indeed, the robotic bugs will enter the scene with a certain quantity of randomness, from different starting positions and at varying speeds, which means their arrival won't be predictable.
When it comes to the death of the enemies, I've developed the swipe gesture recognition system, enabling the player to intuitively interact with the game, as well as the scoring system (+10 points for each killed bug) and the increasing complexity of the gameplay, making the enemies' attack faster and stronger because of the incremented number of bugs.

Technologies

Sprout was developed in Xcode, respecting the boundaries we were given for this project - which was aimed at creating a solution for the iOS/Apple environment only.
Therefore, to create this adventure, our team used Swift as a programming language and SpriteKit as a native tool for game development. SpriteKit is a versatile and feature-rich framework, useful to implement visual effects, animations and physics-based interactions, making the game come alive on your iOS device.