For a part of the extended brief, Luca, Dan and me decided to participate with a game jam together as a team. On one of the biggest game website that held numerous different game jams all the time, itch.io, we discovered our shared interest in a 72 hours game challenge called the Heart Jam. We decided that as a limited time jam, we should arrange a working space to work together where we eventually chose Dan's house.
As we established our ideas based on the theme announced at the start of the challenge, which was scarcity, we decided to make a game about a journey travelling through space avoiding obstacles/aliens while collecting batteries for the player to make it to the space station.
Dan did the designs for the aliens and the space station. Me and Luca both worked on making the objects for the game, while I did the scene compositing and coding. We went through a few problems during different stages which we eventually overcame, therefore we finished the game and submitted it in time. I especially enjoyed the process of problem solving and keeping everything organized.
The following are the gifs of all the objects we made for the game, including the aliens and the planets that are floating in the background, and demonstration stills from the game.
Luckily we were featured on the front page of itch.io for a amount of time, in the fresh games section, which brought several downloads and comments on our game. We were happy about the outcome and decided to establish us as LYD studio, which is the first letters of our names, and to participate with more game jams in the future.
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