This story is about how i started coding and how i started a game called “SkyBright Journey”. At this moment i am still working on the game and and adding features, before i tell you how i started “SkyBright Journey” let’s go back a few years ago when i first started coding.
How i started with coding
When i first started coding it was fun i could make games, clones of popular websites (Youtube, Facebook, Tiktok) and at the time i thought coding was easy until i got errors, missing code, code that couldn’t be used and accidentally deleting the wrong code needing to restart, that was when i started to get frustrated, sad and angry but now i think it will just slow me down and will make me want to quit and i did quit a lot of games and it end up in the trash bin in the past.
At the time i was still using HTML, CSS, Javascript. Then when i found out about python i thought it would be as hard or harder than Java but because the programming language had some English words it was easier to understand and i got less errors.
Then one day i came across a tutorial about making a platformer game with python and pygame, i didn’t know what was pygame and got curious so i click the video and that’s when i found out about pygame which is a free, open-source Python library that helps developers create multimedia applications and video games, in short it’s the platform you use to show the python code and does the hard stuff for you.
The very first game i made with pygame and python was a simple space doge game where you just have to doge asteroids and it was pretty simple though i did run into some errors i manage to make the game in 3-4 days which to me is quite quick and that’s how i started with coding and python.
Now that you know roughly how i started, i’ll tell you how i started on the game “SkyBright Journey”.
“SkyBright Journey” and how it started
The idea of “SkyBright Journey” was actually from a youtube python tutorial made by “Tech With Tim”.
Where in the video he made a python tutorial of making a platformer game with pygame, after watching and completing the code i felt like this game could be better and my goal for this game was to make it to a simple platformer game to a full on adventure game.
The very first thing i did was make a list of features and ideas i have for the game (for example: Menu screen, New maps, etc) i like to write down my ideas for games to not make the process messy so when you are making the game or just finished it and you got an idea for the game it will be hard to put it in because you have to find where to put that piece of code in like maybe a 300-400 long code which might mess up the entire code.
Speaking of messing your entire code it is very very important to make a backup version of your main code because if you mess up the main code you can always go to your backup version of your main code and copy that then paste it in your main code so you don’t have restart the whole project.
This also helps you to not be too worried about messing up and it lowers the chances of you giving up on the project because you lost all of your code.
After writing all of my ideas and features i want to put in the game i started to think about the storyline and name of the game, i prefer to think about the storyline first then name because the name of the story is dependent on the story line like if you called a cute, calming farming game “Little Nightmares” it would just sound weird and not fit with the whole game itself.
After writing the storyline, name and ideas i have for the game i started on the code itself, now i won’t tell you how to do the code you will have to make that path on your own but you can practice with tutorial about the coding language you are using right now.
The Storyline of “SkyBright Journey”
In a peaceful world where there are 5 Sky Shards (Sky Shards are pieces of a star that fell a long time ago) Earth, Water, Wind, Fire and Light.) Keeping the world at peace but after 563 years of being safe in the hands of their keepers, a trickster stole the 5 Sky Shards making corps rot, forests start catching on fire, earthquakes starts, tsunamis sink islands and tornados leave houses and farms demolished.
The whole world was in chaos till you a brave adventure sets off to find and bring back the 5 Sky Shards, after packing and saying goodbye to your friends and family you set off but on the way you meet a girl who wants to join you on the quest of finding and bringing back the 5 Sky Shards though you aren’t really sure if you should let her go with you since it would be a dangerous journey after the girl started to follow you around and begging you to bring her you finally give in let let her join.
The girl introduces herself as Pippin and says that she actually knows where the Sky Shards like the back of her hand. After Pippin gives you a map she made of where the Sky Shards are, when you ask her how she knows this she replies that her father was one of the keepers of the Sky Shards (keepers of the Sky Shards are people or beings that protect the Sky Shards).
After getting the Earth Shard from a boobie traped temple, you and Pippin rest at a nearby village. The next day the village chief learns about your adventure to get back the 5 Sky Shards and he gives you food and a sword to you and Pippin for the journey, after saying you and Pippin say our thanks and goodbyes we set off to get the next Sky Shard.
The Water Shard: Guarded by the Water beast in a sunken temple
The Wind Shard: is at the top of a tall mountain and you have to climb the mountain to the very top to get the Wind which is on a cloud
The Fire Shard: is in a boiling hot volcano that the you must jump over the lava to get the Fire Shard
The Light Shard: the most hardest out of all of the shards is the Light shard this you have to walk through a hot desert but the shard is actually in the temple you see at the beginning of the desert and if you take down the picture of the Light goddess in the temple you will see the Light shard behind it.
After getting all of the shards you and Pippin rest for the night but in the middle of the night you are awoken by a sound and you see Pippin stealing the Shards, you confront Pippin asking her why she is betrayed you but she just laughs saying that you were a fool you trust her and reveals that she actually the person who stole the Sky Shards and hid them.
Pippin runs away with. the 5 Sky Shards and you run after her, you jump over obstacles and when you finally catch up to Pippin she summons the Shadow Shard that was a Shard everyone dislike and soon became an outcast so it teamed up with Pippin to get revenge.
When Pippin summons the Shadow Shard it becomes a human and starts fighting you, after defeating the Shadow Shard you catch Pippin and get back the 5 Sky Shards, you come back with not only the 5 Sky Shards but the person who stole them.
You come back as a hero and you even get a meeting with the king, you leave with a wiser mind that even the most kind, sweet and trustworthy people can stab you in the back, after you got back the 5 Sky Shard the world comes back to peace.
The End