This post is unique in the way, that will cover my own game and I will write more about ideas behind the game than game itself.

At the beginning I have idea to write my own game in Flash, but I cannot find artist and I must freeze my first project near before release. I do not give it up and start work on another small game with abstract graphic (because I cannot create standard graphical assets) and I also want to create something very, very simple in term of game mechanics. Result of this though is The Cottage.

Game is based on old “in, out” game mechanics. You need to count how many people is in small cottage. And people just coming from the left to right and enter/escape from this house. I also decide to leave all of the bonus stuff like music, sounds or anything else. Just because I do not like listening music during gameplay of games.

I was surprised how many time is needed to create small game: just 3 hours of work on core game and another 3 hours for polishing. I released upload this game to the Newgrounds and Kongregate and, as I except, game is not going very well in fact of rating from anonymous players. On the other side, there were some nice player reviews from players of target audience and they like it’s simplicity.

I do not want to bore you with some egocentric words, than just try this game and I hope that you will enjoy it for couple of minutes. I am looking forward to your feedback here in the comments or in our forums created for this game.