LegaSeed

The game was created over 2 years during my time as co-president of the Bloor CI Girls Game Development Club (GGDC). My friend and I founded this club as a way to encourage more girls to learn to code, and provide a comfortable and inclusive environment to do so. We planned the production of the game in such a way that aside from the dialogue scenes, the gameplay consisted of mini-games which was each its own self-contained project. This way, we could come up with puzzle games with varying levels of difficulty in implementation, and use these projects to teach our members to code.

Our entire project was based in an open-source game engine called Godot. Godot has its own language called GDScript which is similar to Python, with clean and simple syntax, so we thought it would be suitable for beginners. Additionally, Godot has an intuitive visual interface to aid with managing sprites, so it was easy for our members to start making simple games right away just by knowing a few basics. We believed teaching coding using games would help with motivation, as seeing a visual result of your hard work is more rewarding than the terminal-based projects that most beginners tend to start out with.

In my case, it was incredibly rewarding to see my club members grow alongside this project. Although this project certainly strengthened my technical skills, what I value most is what this experience taught me about collaboration, communication, and leadership.

The game is available for download at https://rupalico.itch.io/legaseed.