gamedev kata

Basic Kata

• Render a sprite
• Apply gravity to a game object
• Handle inputs
• Communication between two game objects
• Spawn new game objects
• Delete existing game objects

Visibility and Collision Kata

• Detecting visiblity of a game object
• Reacting to collisions

Logistical Kata

• Levels and switching scenes
• Events (e.g. game over)
• NPC interaction

UI Kata

• Updatable UI text
• Dialog boxes

Sound Kata

• Sound effect oneshots
• Looping music

Animation Kata

• Create a sprite animation from separate images or a spritesheet
• Create an animation transition (e.g. stand -> walk)

Art Kata

• Drawing practice (elaborate)

Music Kata

• Playing practice (elaborate)
• Composition practice (elaborate)

Math Kata [link]

• Derive gravity and initial velocity from a desired projectile motion path [link]
• Manually add two 2D vectors
• Manually normalize a 2D vector [link]
• Manually calculate the dot product of two 2D vectors [link]
• Manually calculate the cross product of two 2D vectors [link]

Social Kata

• Ask a programming question in your engine's community (Discord, forum, Slack, Gitter, etc)
• Help someone in your engine's community figure out a problem