BandiA side-view pixel room with a task list and proximity-based interaction. Approach, then interact: walk with WASD, move close to an object and an "e" prompt appears over your head, act on it to progress through the routine. Press t to show or hide the task list, click anything to read what it is. Four tasks, sixty seconds. Finish them and walk out the door; run out of time and you're late.

BandiThe plot came from my mom: about 20% of the time she's leaving the house, she can't find her phone and has to look for it without being late.

BandiEverything, including all the pixel art, which is where two thirds of the time went. Collision so you don't walk through the bed. Good ending, bad ending. The "e" prompt is borrowed from a black-and-white game I played on itch.io and couldn't find again.

BandiI kept a process journal for it: brainstorm, narrowing down, criteria v1, precedents, to-do list, criteria v2, testing, reflection.

BandiThat a game doesn't have to come from somewhere far away. This one came from our kitchen: my mom, every morning, looking for her phone. Once I saw that as a timer, a search, and a fail state, it was already a game. Everyday life is full of rules nobody has written down yet.

BandiIt was also my first real game in Snap!. Block-based, so no syntax to fight, which meant I could spend the time on the part that matters: what happens when the player does something, and in what order.