Monkey See Monkey Eat

The Game on Windows Store: Monkey See Monkey Eat

I always wanted to make a game. A very simple yet addictive (addictive might be too strong a word here, a game which u feel like playing again and again) game. Tried out all sorts of stuff in flash but never really got around to completing a full fledge game with scores and stuff.

A few years down the line, I landed up in Microsoft, right around the time of windows 8 release. A tiny competition was organized to create an app for windows 8 and we started brainstorming for ideas and came up with a few but I don’t remember how but some how we finalized on developing a simple game.

It was the night of Hyderabad App fest that gave the game some shape. The project I was supposed to be working on got scrapped and suddenly I had the time to explore everything new and found a tutorial that suited what we were doing

Arrived the day of Hyderabad App fest, nervous, we entered the room with a half developed game, making jokes about the “pew” sound. It was a 12 hour coding event from evening 6 pm to 6 am next day. Good food, roamed arnd like ghosts in the building trying to find a conference room to visualize our architecture on a board and ended up drawing designs on it :P. Working together helped us through the points we got stuck in.

Then came the morning, a sleepless yet very fresh morning it was. We were quite pleased with ourselves with the progress and the judges were very impressed with the UI and the simple yet attractiveness of the game. And the icing on the cake was when of the judges invited us to showcase the game with the words - “one of the best looking apps I’ve seen in a long time”. All credits to Battu.

With a smile on our face we walked out into the bright sunrise .

After that fixing all the issues and publishing to the store was the most annoying part and not giving up on the way was the challenging part but we did it anyways.. All credits to Akshitha for her determination.

Here is the link: Monkey See Monkey Eat

Play when u r plain bored with work and need some absent minded refreshment :D