What are some relatively simple mobile games I should add to a project I'm making?

In short, I want to begin a hobby project on making a collection of offline games to pass the time with no nagging advertisements or micro transactions.

I would like a mix of puzzle-style games (Wordle, Sudoku, Solitaire, etc.) and more traditional games (Subway Surfers-style, that arrow game where you click while the bow is moving and you need to aim for the target)

I'm looking to focus on relatively easy to make 2D singleplayer games, since multiplayer and 3D will both add additional layers of complexity.

Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

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owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 290d

Check out Simon Tatham's Puzzles for inspiration. Mostly logic and puzzle games, but they seem in line with what you're thinking.

markz@suppo.fi · 10 pts · 290d

Just remember quality over quantity.

janus2@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 290d (2 replies)

classics like Snake, Puzzle Bobble, Angry Birds, etc. are worth emulating

*edit: emulating as in coding your own version not literal emulation

sbeak@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 290d (1 reply)

Ooh, definitely will try to make snake

Babbiorsetto@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 289d

I made snake in Godot some time ago. I'll leave it here just in case you want some inspiration.

DerteTrdelnik@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 290d

Ball on a maze controlled with gyro - simple acceleration and friction physics, just design levels with hazard pits, walls, pins, bumpers etc.

emb@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 290d (1 reply)

The helicopter game (though I guess now Flappy Bird would be the reference work) - http://arcade.flashgamearchive.com/game.php?game=Helicopter&m=0

Bejewled style match-3 puzzle game.

sbeak@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 290d

match puzzle game could be interesting

Cris_Color@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 290d

I've been thinking about attempting to make a foss Pokémon go like game, or walking focused virtual pet game, but without the dark patterns and monetization that constantly tries to separate you from your money

Absolutely enormous amount of work for character/monster design though, so for now I've just been thinking about it occasionally and will try to doodle creature designs as I think of ones I think might be interesting

At least gameplay doesn't need to be very complex

I was thinking just a regular android app to make it easy to use the stepcounting activity api or whatever though, rather than using godot, unless I think of functionality it really needs an engine for

0ops@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 290d

Minesweeper!

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 290d (2 replies)

Slime volleyball

Feyter@programming.dev · 4 pts · 290d (1 reply)

You mean Blobby Volley?

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 290d

yes

Rinzler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 290d

Ok golf

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 2 pts · 290d

Checkout merge maestro

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 290d

Drug Wars!

Or y'know, a bowdlerized knockoff.