Binding of Endless Running

Binding of Endless Running started out as a school project where you had to make an Endless Runner, I felt like this was too simple and decided to challenge myself to make a Binding of Isaac clone where you had to run instead of fight.

The basic mechanics of the game is to find the key in the room to move on to the next room till you find the boss of that level, after defeating this boss you can move on to the next level which is more challenging than the previous one.

The part where I was most interested in and spend the most time on was making a system that could create an infinite dungeon with levels and increasing amount of rooms.

One of the requirements of the project was that it had to run on android, the pros of this was that I learn how to develop for android and the different controls that you can make for it. Sadly this also meant that I had to simplify some of the gameplay because the limited controls made certain things to difficult.

The shortcomings in this project were that after I managed to create an infinite dungeon and made the basic gameplay I got less motivated to do the finishing touch of the game. In the current version of the game there is almost no variance in the rooms and on each level you have the same boss in the end, at one point in the future I would like to return to this game to add more rooms/bosses to add that finishing touch.

In the end I learned a lot in this project about how to make a game that infinitely keeps creating content, I spend a lot off time on researching this and when I finally managed to create it it felt so rewarding. Besides that I also learnt a lot about developping for android and the controls of a mobile device.

Release date: Oktober 2016

Development time: 50-100 hours