Chapter 1 is an adventure game where you complete riddles, can you get everyone to the end alive?
A short game jam covering voice acting, simple puzzles, and a strange adventure.
*Not all the sounds and music actually made it into the game 😅 I made the trailer to give some ideas how the game should feel (reality is a bit different… ran out of time to put all the sound in).
Still I’m pretty happy I took a new group and made a short game in roughly a week. One of the problems with newbies is they might give up or fight, or get distracted too much so working with them can be a bit tough.
I managed a small team of 6 people and helped the majority of them work on their first game. I did the level scripting, animation, and level layout, I also did some voice acting, and well helped teach and direct others which is a task in itself. 😅 I had two writers that had different opinions on the feel of the game so you might notice that.
At one point I wasn’t even sure if I would get it uploaded in time. I created 8 levels in one week though we were aiming for 10 but between bug testing and handling the rest I had to call it so we could have something to submit in time for the game jam. I learned a new source control (Plastic SCM) and a new scripting tool for the game jam.
I was proud of the level of cutscenes I built out too. It was hard to work with the original idea of a shark coming out of a puddle and eating the player and various other things that came up but I figured out how to approach it and make it work. Check out the blog to understand the whole process.
I wrote a long blog post about it here. Far more pictures and gifs there too.
