Making the L-Game less boring. A guide to applying visual and audio "juice" to a simple puzzle game, featuring pixel art tips, squash-and-stretch animations, and the secrets of tactile feedback.

Doraemon Monopoly is a 1998 PC game made for much older systems, so the simplest way to play it on modern computers is through DOSBox. In this post, I show the basic setup I use to get it running and include a quick overview of the core gameplay, so you can follow along even though the game’s interface is entirely in Chinese.