The team on a bad camera (me, Takano, Leo & Joel)
The Concept
It was kind of unclear how we would chose a theme but we decided that the first thing that comes up on the generator would be our theme. The first thing that came up on the generator was of course Porn Orbital Station or something in that name and we can't have that! So we generated 5 or 6 names and we systematically crossed out the names that we did not like or that the name doesn't spark any ideas, and so we ended up with Claustrophobic Fencing Rangers.A lot of ideas came up when deciding on how the game would be like. We had the concept of that it would be a player vs player game and that the players would kill each other by jumping on top of the other one -Mario style- until the player is so small that he/she would disappear entirely.
The Story
All we know that it was going to be somewhere tight so an elevator was a perfect setting but inside an elevator was boring so we moved it to an elevator shaft instead. It was unclear when but somewhere down the line we unanimously agreed that there would be a hobo living in the elevator, and so a story was born!It was just a normal work day for our busy worker but suddenly she hears a strange noise on top of the elevator so she decides to check it out She finds out that there is a hobo living above the elevator! she tells the hobo that he is not allowed to live on top of the elevator but the hobo ignores her so she decides to take things into her own hands and tries evict the hobo from the elevator. The hobo has nowhere else to go so he is determined to stay. What will happen? play the game and see who wins!
The Execution
We now have a general concept of the game so we started working, but then we realized that the game was to complicated for the time frame that we have so we had to cut down on some features. The game that we have now is that the goal of the players is to push one another of a ledge by shoving the other player of the platform.Leo was the programmer and SFX guy
Takano was the music composer
Joels was the 3D artist
I was the Character artist and the helper of Leo (sometimes) :) when he had some minor programming problems
My Contribution
I had no idea what I would do in the beginning because Takano was going to make the characters, Joel was going to do the background and other props and Leo was our programmer. I tried to help Leo with the programming but I still had no idea what to work on there plus i only have basic knowlage of the programming language so I wasn't much of a help there. Takano who was going to make the character had not installed Maya on his computer and is trying to download the student version and after 5h it was still downloading and nothing is happening. Given the short time frame that we had I took the liberty of making the characters while Takano was downloading Maya. So i finished the character completely rigged and animated while Takano was still stuck on downloading Maya. Takano gave up and started working on the music instead.After i had finished working with the characters I started working on particle emitters and those were the fire on the barrel and the small yellow things that you see falling in game
My Hobo character which looks much like Santa!
The Result
I did not get much sleep only three hours in total. Even though it was my house i slept on the floor... on a fluffy purple carpet and it was good. I was afraid if i slept in my bed i would not wake early plus I had to keep the game jam spirit alive! which means no comfortable bed to sleep on. Everything about that game jam was pure awesomeness! I still cant believe that we were able to make a finished and playable prototype in just 24 hours
Here's the download link if you are interested in playing it
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