AGameAWeek Blog 2024-07-11 - Haze

[bridge] The word for July 11th is Haze (Haze) [verse] I tackled this with the obvious mentality of "a hazy scrolling parallax mountain view", and that worked pretty well, but I felt it was lacking something. [break] [bridge] "Hey, why not add an alien creature, since it looks so much like Shadow of the Beast", said an insane (insane) voice inside my head. [verse] I tried that, and then I gave up trying to animate a running alien creature. Instead, then, I drew a little army jeep and plopped two well-trained cadets in the thing. [break] [chorus] Brum brum brum goes the little Jeep. (Jeep) .. But, no. I needed more. [break] [alt-verse] So I added a giant flying monster, and then spitballed the title with ChatGPT for a while, until Haze became an acronym, (an acronym) and the game felt perfectly adequate. (so adequate) (not fantastic, adequate) [verse] There's no winning this game. You can't beat the Zephyr raptors, but you can bounce a happy little ball over the top to score points. [bridge] Isn't that enough?! I'm tired now! [chorus] Brum brum brum goes the little Jeep. (Jeep) Brum brum brum with a little beep. (Beep) Bang bang bang goes the happy ball (a happy ball) Bounce bounce bounce Unti lhe falls (weeeeee) [chorus] Brum brum brum goes the little Jeep. (Jeep) Brum brum brum with a little beep. (Beep) Bang bang bang goes the happy ball (a happy ball) Bounce bounce bounce Unti lhe falls (weeeeee)