The Basics of Game Development

It was a nice, quiet day on Yoshi Island. Yoshi was coming back to the Smash Village from walking Chompy, and after allowing his Chain Chomp pet to go back into his doghouse and rest up, Yoshi went into his house, and noticed that Bowser and Charizard had several tables around, with plenty of blueprints.

"Eh? What's all this?" Yoshi asked as he walked over to his two, reptilian friends, looking over their shoulders at the blueprints, "It looks like you guys are planning... something. What is it?"

Bowser glanced at Yoshi, smiling. "Me and Charizard are developing our own video game. We played enough games on the Wii to get a good idea on how to grasp our idea." He looked at Charizard. "Right, Charizard?"

Charizard nodded in agreement, looking carefully over the blueprints. "Right, Bowser." He looked up to Yoshi. "You see, Yoshi, me and Bowser have got some hints from Mr. Game-and-Watch, and we're implementing his ideas for our two dimensional game."

Yoshi blinked, and he scratched his head. "Wha? Two dimensional?"

Bowser patted Yoshi on his right shoulder. "You know, two dimensional? 2D? The simplest way to create video games?"

Yoshi was still confused. Bowser and Charizard looked at each other, nodded, and they then got up from their wooden chairs, brining Yoshi into the basement. When the three reptilian Smashers reached the basement, Charizard opened a cabinet and took out a few white-colored pieces of paper, which had sprites of 2D figures on them, showing them to Yoshi.

"See?" Charizard stated to Yoshi, "We already have the appropriate sprites to animate into the game."

Bowser folded his arms and nodded. "That's right, and we also have the backgrounds to go with the game." He pushed Yoshi towards the right and then pointed at a few paintings, revealing beautifully drawn backgrounds, from an active volcano in a red-lit sky, to a large blue-colored ocean and the sky filled with large, dark thunderclouds spouting out rain and blue-colored lightning bolts.

Yoshi's jaw dropped in disbelief and awe as he was pushed towards a table that had papers written on them. He turned to Bowser and Charizard, asking, "What's with the words on the papers?"

"Oh, my dear Yoshi boy, that's basically the story," Charizard stated to Yoshi, picking the papers up and flipping through them, "We always come up with a good story to go along with the game as the development goes. You understand, right?"

Yoshi nervously rubbed the back of his head. "Well... actually..." His hearing then perked up, and he ran back upstairs into the living room. He then ran to the left and entered into the closet, to see Donkey Kong programming on the computer. "Wha? Donkey Kong, what are you doing in my house!?"

"Oh, I'm just doing the programming for the game to make sure it works!" Donkey Kong explained, smiling at Yoshi and facing the green Yoshisaurus as he rapidly typed, "This is to make sure that everything works, and plus, I have to debug all the glitches that are in the game. We don't want this to have bugs like in Super Smash Brothers Melee." He chuckled and faced the computer again.

Yoshi paused for a moment and folded his arms, taping his right foot. "Hmmm... Super Smash Brothers Melee... why does that game sound so familiar...?" He curiously pondered, when he was suddenly pulled by Bowser and Charizard into the kitchen, to see that Wario was doing voices, weird noises, and grunts.

"Here, we have the sound effects done," Bowser explained to Yoshi, "You always have to have some sort of sound in the game. And Wario here was kind enough to do them for a specific price!"

"I still want more money for this!!" Wario snapped as he performed farting sound effects with his own actual farts, much to the disgust of the three reptilian Smashers. Charizard then sighed and handed Wario an extra bag filled with gold coins.

"And last, but not least, we have the music composer and the testers," Charizard concluded as he pointed to Meta Knight, Ivysaur, and ROB, "Meta Knight is able to compose excellent music pieces as he's able to make unique and well-crafted inventions. And both Ivysaur and ROB have kindly obliged to test the game for us!"

"Just one question," Yoshi asked, rubbing his right elbow with his left hand, "Just what system is this game going to be for?"

Bowser and Charizard both grinned, and they got into Yoshi's face, stating loudly together in unison, "For the Nintendo Wii, duh!"

Yoshi screamed as he fell backwards on his back, getting up to see Ivysaur and ROb vigorously testing the game on the Wii. There was a small television set hooked up to the outlet by the refrigerator, and Yoshi smiled, joining in with Ivysaur and ROB, much to the delight of Bowser and Charizard. The green Yoshisaurus has finally understood the wonders and basics of videogame development. For now... hehehehehe...