Who let the cats out ?
This game I had the opportunity to work with a couple of other people, and we designed that to participate in a Game Jam.
My contribution to this game was the sound Design, the mechanic design, and the Level Design, While helping and managing the people working with Art and programming, making sure that everyone was on track.
Here is a summary of everything that I did in this project.
Design
This is one of the first levels in the game, as the player can only walk forward, the idea is to make a very simple straight forward level, also helps the player understand the game idea.
Following the progression at this level, the player needs to synchronize the jump with the other two mechanics in order to reach the cat.
One of the hardest levels, as the player does not control the “Left” button, it is important to be patient and wait for the cat to press it while jumping and crouching is essential to get to the next level.
At this point, the Player already has good expertise in the game and already controls a lot of mechanics, so the challenge was to make a level that made the player use everything he learned so far.
At this level, the idea was to have the same feeling as in the “left” level where the player needs to be patient and also use every other mechanic to complete this level.
Production
Another Game Jam project, but this time with more experience and two extra programmers our game got bigger than before. We organized meetings in the morning in these two days to briefly discuss what were our tasks. This time I worked mostly putting everything in the engine and working to design the levels, but at the same time, I had to go check with other people to see if what was planned was going well. It turned out that we had a series of problems during these two days, first all the people I worked with were in Brazil and I was in the United States in other words we had a 4 hour time difference between me and my team. The second problem was two of the programmers left the project on the first day, and we ended up with only one programmer who crunched a lot on the second day. Besides everything we got an amazing result at the end, but unfortunately, we had some an expected errors at the end of the jam and we missed the deadline, but I learned important lessons about my time management to keep up with my team. Second I learned about how important is the scope of a game, maybe even with the three programmers, we would not have finished the game in time.
Sound Effects
Screen Shots
This game is under corrections, and will be posted later.