On this day in 2020, Green Dude's beautiful November development started. The short workspan of a project that while simpler than my greater ambitions and eventually discovered to be a bit bugged, was also a big source of joy.

Green Dude's development started on 2020 November 22nd, it was finished about a month later, the game hasn't changed since its completion of 1.0.0, and this is a cool anniversary for a cool Hindbodes game. Those unchanged, loose-going 1.0.0 files are attached to this post. It's OK quality but totally free.

Green Dude actually did a lot for my development history too, as it was the first time I made and released a game that uses automated objects for levels - "states". (Read: I wasn't just copying and pasting a lot of code for every individual level like I did with Bunny Horrors or Startup Tophat as a lesser-skilled hobbyist. Green Dude's state system of choice also doesn't choose which state is running with clunky if else chains.)

Green Dude was also largely recycled for an ongoing platformer development cycle that started in 2018 and had fallen apart and fallen off badly in the same year, until 2022 when I started to revive it. I have made some other post about that game.

In Green Dude 2020, it turns out that month of work was very good for the game development. For the size of Green Dude and all the good self-therapy it gave playing it again later, plus all the other stuff I mentioned above, one month was perfect. It stopped 2020 from having no new Hindbodes game (Bridge of Fate was in development but not nearly ready enough to post anywhere before November), and it created a nice mood leading into Christmas.

On December 26th (Boxing Day), we will pass the point where the game's completion is three years old. (It wasn't posted until the day after.)

This calls for celebratory words. Before November 22 of 2020 ended, the game looked like this:

There's an odd secret in the forest of the complete game.