Vaccinator – game
Online game: concept, design and development
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“Wow!! 🙂 Great work!” – Sukhesh Shenoy, Senior Lead Software Engineer, Adobe Animate
“Really impressive!” – Ajay Shukla, Product Manager, Adobe Animate
I was inspired to create a retro-style arcade game that enabled us all to take out some post-pandemic frustration on the Covid invaders. Initially devised as a prototype for a pitch, I later developed it into a fully working game. It was a great excuse to teach myself some JavaScript coding, the game was created entirely from scratch using CreateJS and Adobe Animate.
I tried to ensure the game was fun across a range of skill levels. There were plenty of challenges along the way, such as getting smooth performance no matter how many enemies there were on screen, and getting it to work well across both desktop and touch-screen devices.
After discussing a particular feature on the Adobe Animate forums, I received an email from Ajay Shukla, the Head of Product at Adobe Animate (one of his team had passed it on to him – he loved it!). We set up a Zoom chat where we discussed the game, its inspiration, and how it was created, along with getting some suggestions on how they could better improve and promote Adobe Animate itself, including discussing new and potential features they could add to help game creators.