I just joined and started my first real game dev project which is Cotti the Knight, a 2D platformer. This is my first time actually committing to making a game instead of just messing around :), so everything here is very new to me.
The idea is simple : you play as a knight navigating a 2D world with platforms, obstacles, and eventually enemies. Nothing crazy yet—but that’s kind of the point. I wanted to start small and actually finish something.
What I worked on:
For this first stage, I focused on the absolute basics like
- Setting up the project and game window
- Creating a player character
- Implementing movement (left, right, jumping)
- Basic gravity and collision with the ground/platforms
Just getting the character to move and feel like a platformer already took more effort than I expected even while having help from yt tutos :)