Pazuru Pico

One of the episode for Bang Dream! spin off series "BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!☆PICO ～ OHMORI ～" features a puyo puyo/tetris-like game where characters in the series fall down and when a group is connected they disappear from the board. I came to me out of nowhere "why don't I make this acutally playable", and begin working on this project right away.

https://twitter.com/yuu0420aya/status/1278890028299476994

《BanG Dream! 少女樂團派對》少女樂團派對★PICO 第2季 大碗公 Episode09 2-9 screenshot.png

I chose Pixi.js as the stack of choice since the library is popular solution for making applications like these running on WebGL. The whole logic for the game is implemented from scratch and the assets are taken from the anime episode. The challenging part of implementing the logic for making a group disappear and how to make the remaining characters cascade down.

Within a day, the first version is completed and I posted it in Bang Dream! discord for a small sample of people to try. This is actually one of the few times i created something thousands of people would access so there were a couple of problems right away. First there were a couple of bug based on logic implemented in the app. There are also compatibility problems with the javascript version being used (ES6) and WebGL support that might .

With those bugs fixed, I posed the game on reddit and right away it received a lot of feedback from the Bang Dream! community.

Working with this project has given me a lot of experience about all the small details that contributes to making application that actual users will be using. Shortly after the release, i left the project as is but it's still playable if anyone is intersted.