So after taking a long break, and with the world being what it is, I decided 2026 was the year to pick back up game dev/design. Nothing brings me joy quite like trying to bring others joy through mechanics, and gameplay.
Do You Punch the Guy is the brainchild of myself and my third child who is now 16, but at the time of its inception was probably….13 or 14 if I had to guess. I’m not even sure what we were talking about. Or how we decided it would be hilarious if there was a game just called “Do You Punch the Guy” where you just decide if you punch a guy a whole bunch of times in different scenarios. Flash forward to today, a few years later, I wanted to get back in to game dev/design and started learning Godot.
First thing I did was immediately bite off more than I can chew and try to start a huge project of a cool design I had been brewing for a long time that is WAY more complex than it originally seemed.
“OK”, I thought to myself, “need to scale back a bit”. And Do You Punch the Guy came back to mind. The game was simple, funny, and would be a good entry point to teach myself the ropes before I jumped into a larger project that took a more complete understanding of game dev and Godot.
The final thing, and this one was luck, was art and budget. Basically I had none, of either. I have no art skills, no budget, and no one who I can mooch free art assets off of. So because Do You Punch the Guy is a comedy game I hoped that I could pull on the nostalgic heartstrings of early 2000s comedy gold like “The End of The World” and “The Impossible Quiz” with silly trash art that was part of the joke.
At some point this led me to draw “The Guy” and immediately I wanted to punch his stupid face. And at this point I had hope for this game yet. At this point I’m going to call the art “stylized” and pretend I don’t just suck at drawing. (Or at least that is what I am telling myself)
Judging by the traffic this site is getting having only been around for a couple weeks, I’m hopeful that people are going to enjoy the silly romp that Do You Punch the Guy promises to be. I know even as I develop the game, sometimes my level ideas make ME laugh when I look at what’s next for me to work on.
Until next time, Do YOU punch the guy?!
-Shoe