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The Making Of

I’ve always liked the idea of creating experiences for the web. Nowadays, 💸 almost every mobile and desktop device has a web browser and visitors can experience your creation without the friction of 💸 downloading and installing a separate app. Prior to creating Vortelli’s, I dabbled with tools like Three.js, Phaser and Construct, but 💸 I never actually completed a project. I kept falling into the cycle of starting a project with excitement and motivation 💸 but as I’d encounter problems, I’d gradually lose interest and eventually quit.

In mid-2024, I promised myself that I was going 💸 to break that cycle by finishing and releasing a 3D multiplayer web game. I still wasn’t proficient with any particular 💸 game engine and I spent many hours reading and watching YouTube videos trying to decide on the perfect engine. I 💸 eventually figured out that there was no such thing as a perfect engine and I really just needed to pick 💸 one, learn the basics and start building. I ended up choosing PlayCanvas because I was already pretty comfortable with JavaScript 💸 and I found its editor very simple to use.

I spent the majority of my time figuring out how to get 💸 the multiplayer netcode working. At first, the prototype game didn’t have any sort of goal or objective, it was just 💸 an open world where you could hang out with other players. Maybe it was because I’m a solo dev, but 💸 I started to feel that players would quickly become bored with this experience. Some kind of minigame needed to be 💸 added to give players a sense of purpose. I went with a pizza cooking minigame because everyone loves pizza, right? 💸 I chose the name ‘Vortelli’s Pizza,’ because it sounds like the name of a somewhat believable pizza shop and I 💸 couldn’t find any real life businesses on Google using that name already.