Candy Catch Frenzy is a simple, fast-paced game built in the Godot game engine using GDScript. You control a basket at the bottom of the screen and must catch as many falling candies as you can while dodging bombs. Some candies (like the rainbow one) refill your lives for a sweet comeback. Combo points reward skillful streaks.

I made Candy Catch Frenzy to practice my Godot skills, experiment with quick game prototyping, and to make something fun and playable in a short time. My main goal was to get better at implementing game feel, animations, movement, and rewarding feedback, while exploring the basics of making a project from start to finish.

• Engine: Built entirely in Godot with GDScript for all the code
• Sprites: Simple self-made graphics (I used Canva)
• Hierarchy: Main scene for the game, independent scripts for candies, bombs, and the basket
• Game mechanics implemented:
  • Spawning candies and bombs at random times and positions
  • Basket movement via the keyboard
  • Points and combos for catching candies
  • Rainbow powerup logic for life resets and visual effects
  • Feedback: screen shakes, scaling, color changes, fade-out instructions
• I tested and tweaked everything myself to try to keep things balanced and make the action feel satisfying.

• Godot UI/Anchors: Centering and fading in-game instructions on all resolutions required experimenting with Godot’s layout system and manual code adjustments.
• Polish: Small touches, like screen shakes and pop-up labels, took lots of trial and error but make a big difference in “game feel.”
• Difficulty/balance: Making sure the action feels fair but challenging was hard without playtesters!
• Iteration: I learned how valuable it is to frequently playtest, even on small projects, and to break the codebase into reusable scripts/scenes.

• Move left/right with the arrow keys or A/D.
• Catch candies for points and combos.
• Avoid bombs or you’ll lose a life.
• Catch rainbow candies for a full life refill.

This project is a fun showcase of what you can build with Godot in a short time, and a nice milestone for my game design progress :)