Our First Meeting
After releasing our second app, Letter Sequence Buddy, I thought it was a great time to have a ‘proper’ company meeting with Char to review our progress and plan for whatās next. So, we held our very first official stand-up meeting yesterday.
I asked Char to set a goal for how many users weād like to have by the end of the year. At first, she said 100 downloads, but I encouraged her to think bigger. After taking a moment to reconsider, she proudly raised the goal to 300 users! I guess 300 is a pretty ambitious goal for her š.
Next, we talked about how we could reach that number. I suggested that we could either improve our current apps or build something new. No surprise, she was more excited about building new apps, so we moved on to discuss what we could create next.
I suggested that we should stick with the 11-plus exam theme since itās relevant to her studies. Weāve already covered math and verbal reasoning, so I thought a non-verbal reasoning app focused on shape recognition would be a good next step. But Char found that idea is a bit boring. Instead, she proposed something much more excitingāa quiz game with a dragon that shoots fireballs when you tap the correct answer! šš„ I loved the idea, but I had to admit that my design skills arenāt quite up to creating dragons and fireballs. So, we decided to start with something simpler.
Super Cat Hopper
In the end, we landed on a game idea she came up with called Super Cat Hop. Itās a simple jumping game where a cat (called Meowla) jumps over blocks that come from either side of the screen. If the cat jumps in time, it lands on the block; if not, it gets hit, and the game is over. Although the concept is simple, itās a great place to start, especially since game development is a lot harder than building basic apps.
We have agreed the next steps, Iām going to focus on learning how to make 2D games, while Char continues designing the game. Stay tunedāweāll hopefully have a fun cat-jumping game to share soon!
Yue & Char, Games 