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Development

The game was made in a 48-hour timeframe as part of the MMarmelade-GameJam at our university with the theme lost signal. We were a team of five people, 4 devs, one artist, everyone helping a bit everywhere.

The first evening we pitched our rough ideas and in the end chose the most interesting, as it was originally supposed to work with voice input. But we were fast to swap to the typing mechanic, due to the uncertainty of the previous medium, typing was much more predictable and therefore plannable. Once this was established, we were quick to start working, first going with pair-programmming to create a strong base, so everyone could work individually on the second day.

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Creation and Implementation of the assets

The second day of the Jam was mainly used for creating the images and visual effects we later used in the game. While some of our teammembers took care of the photos, I was mostly stuck in Unity, creating the prefabs and logic for the sprite-swapping based on certain inputs and the display of the written characters in the red bar. If you want to know more about how the assets were created, you can look it up in the read more section.

While i was only little involved in the photo taking process, I still want to talk about it, as it is the most important step for creating our unique look. Thankfully our model, Sem, volunteered to be our tv-host. So we put him infront of a greenscreen and got around 50 photos of different poses that were keyed out and later matched with the sounds to portray the correct emotion. I will add some wip photos here, because I find them funny.

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Credit

Big thanks to my team who i will link here;
Leo Schweiger - Artist
Piet Koller - Dev
David Zandanell - Dev
Kilian Kolb - Dev
Also check out the other Jam games! I suggest starting with Steady Signal