Global Game Jam!
WOWEE this was an amazing weekend! From Friday through Sunday evening (which included sleeping in the development rooms overnight), me and a team of a few other game designers created a game entirely from scratch. The universal theme for every Game Jam around the globe was the human heartbeat.
The game I lead designing was Ether Beat.
Here’s a link to our page on the GGJ site! The game itself isn’t online just yet, but it shouldn’t be long before the source files are added to this page so you can download and play it for free!
I was a sort of designated team leader since I came up with the concept, but Jen, the manager, did just as much work as I did with leading everyone. I was also lead artist and lead game designer. I made the backgrounds, the logo, and pretty much anything that’s super sparkly.
The idea I had was to take the human heartbeat, and look at how that could have meaning; the heartbeat symbolizes life, and can reflect our emotion. Using that thought, I wanted to make a simple, elegant, zen-like game that utilized beautiful music woven in a heartbeat, and graphics to represent how we travel through life meeting new people, making connections, and creating a symphony of music unique to each individual; as well as the journey our hearts take us through to live within our emotions. (though we were only able to make three levels with three emotions - our concept had seven in total)
Also, it’s really colorful and sparkly.
Btw. this weekend will kill so many braincells of mine. O___O
Remember when I told you guys about the “Global Game Jam”?
Well, it will start this Friday.
I’ll work with my boys on a game within 48 hours. Hopefully, we’ll finish it this time… not like the one we tried to create last year. That was a disaster. And never happenend. o__o
So… I will try to liveblog the whole event somehow. Like… you get an update every two hours of so- maybe even with some photos and videos. We’ll see. After all, I want to show you my idiots. ;3
"Bloody Puppet" (Beta) Global Game Jam 2013 Entry
newgrounds.comI worked with a small team of 3 on this game for Global Game Jam 2013, an event where we spend 48 hours straight making a game and living off caffeine. I did all of the art for this one.
My teammates were Lauren and Sylvenna
We have decided to continue work on the game outside of GGJ to hopefully make a finished Gold Master version.
