Cicada Craze

What if cicadas needed your help? The player must help cicadas reach the treetops by placing branches for them to climb on. Use the mouse to drag and drop branches. Due to being bugs, they don't always behave as you'd like, but removing other paths can help you force them to take the desired route to the treetops. There is an original song and 5 minutes of ambient cicada singing. The game is playable at the view link as a browser game for your computer (kinda works on mobile too), but be warned that it's not very polished.

I've taken AP Computer Science A and participated in the previous virtual Codeday, but I don't have much experience on actual projects. I also had never used this game engine before. I created all of it except for the font, though the audio and some of the art was done earlier this week.

The hardest part of it was getting the cicada movement to work. The built in platformer movement mechanics weren't going to work for this game, so I had to do it manually. The cicadas kept taking the lower branch after turning around when given two paths, teleporting up the tree trunks instead of turning around, falling through branches, and falling off the bottoms of branches, among other issues. I was able to get it to a point where this didn't happen too much. Another issue was getting it to work in browser, because the audio system that worked in the preview ended up breaking in browser, forcing me to delete song 2 and 4 minutes of additional ambient cicada noise. It also caused the quit game button (which used to close the preview window) to do nothing.