simple start

This is a great beginning of an exploration of soft rewards in game design. Back in the day, games were all about dramatic life and death situations, always hitting the player over the head with "Game Over" and you "You Lose" messages.  Sure, an action-packed game can be fun, but such binary stakes can sometimes get in the way of nuance. By setting the stakes as you have, you have given yourself ample room: Either to stay in more naturalistic stakes, inviting your players to pay attention to the small rituals and mundane experiences that constitute our daily experience. Or, conversely,  you can raise the stakes gradually and into dramatic heights. As you learn more design and technology tricks, keep tabs on how you build the stakes, just as you have in this example. Very promising!

Wonderful skills in mood-building with these coding choices. It’s very simple but it demonstrates a kind of awareness around design choices— slow gentle color shifts paired with slow mellow music. Lean into those design choices! You’ve demonstrated good harmony, and it’s important that once you start adding more elements like fonts, art, and effects, that they all vibe with each other as well as these do here. I’m looking forward to seeing what kind of direction you decide to take your games and how you will build narrative around the player and integrate art. Lovely first game! Well done!