Ricochlime

Ricochlime is a casual game for every platform where you defend yourself against waves of monsters with your ricocheting projectiles.

I originally built this game as something to do with my hands while I focused on lectures during my computer science degree. It's designed as a calm, relaxed alternative to the fast-paced, high-stimulation games that dominate the app stores.

You can play it online:

Or download it for your device:

           

Technical

The game is made with the Flame game engine and Flutter, allowing it to be deployed to a wide variety of platforms from a single codebase.

Why Flutter and Flame?

I chose Flame because of its integration with Flutter. It is much easier to produce a good user interface in Flutter than with game engines like Unity.

Additionally, Flame is lightweight and performant, making it the best fit for a simple 2D game like this. Ricochlime launches in less than a second and easily runs at 60fps+ on low-end devices while sipping very little battery.

Project structure

RICOCHLIME
├── assets           Game assets
│   ├── audio            Background music files
│   ├── google_fonts     Fonts
│   ├── icon             Icon variants for different platforms
│   └── images           Spritesheets for the character, monsters, etc.
│
├── lib              Main source code
│   ├── ads              In-app purchase handling (ads were removed v1.11.6)
│   ├── flame            Game engine specific code
│   ├── i18n             Translations
│   ├── nes              Retro themed components, extending from the nes package
│   ├── pages            App pages (home, settings, etc.)
│   └── utils            Misc code
│
├── patches          Patches to remove development/proprietary code before publishing
├── scripts          Development scripts (e.g. for generating icons or updating versions)
└── test             Unit and widget tests