Making Eggs Interact With The Environment

As previously mentioned, eggs which the player lays become instantiated into the game world for the players to interact with. This helps with the light puzzle solving elements found in Escape from Sunnyside. Simply put, the weight of the eggs is what interacts with the surrounding environment. They can be used to hold down platforms or shot at buttons to activate platforms or doors throughout the game. In future development, they could even be used as ammunition to tackle enemies.
The fact that the eggs have so many uses is what really rounds out our core mechanic so well. You constantly find yourself having to plan out how many eggs will be required of you to clear a gap and get where you need to go, whilst remembering that you need to save one to activate a pressure plate somewhere else. Whenever I eventually get round to adding enemies, this will elevate this planning out even further and has the potential to make for some pretty tricky puzzles. I even plan to add a section into the vertical slice where the player will come across a gap too small for them to fit through but just bit enough to push an egg through and get it to roll into an activator plate or button.

This design choice is what creates moments where one wrong move can have you redoing an entire sequence of events. And if that sounds like it could be frustrating, well, good. Because that level of frustration found in games like Happy Wheels, Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy, and I Am Bread are also incredibly addictive. Because the mechanics and the premise are simple. You find yourself raging at the disbelief you are failing when it should be so simple. And that means replayability. That means this game is a great candidate for streaming. For watching others play. For speedrunning, trophy hunting and more.

And this is all before even talking about the possibilities of power-ups and modifiers we could make to the eggs in game, like unbreakable eggs, heavy eggs, floating eggs, who knows, the possibilities are plentiful without a doubt.