Year: 2024
Role: Solo Developer
Made with Unity and Ink in 48 hours for GlobalGameJam
Theme: Make me Laugh
Itch: https://yaoyaoyt.itch.io/existence
Make them laugh, at least for their birthday, would you?
Other Info:
I used Ink as the additional writing software.
Learning the software was a lot of fun, but I made too much fun out of it, so I couldn’t finish my game.
If you wonder what the game’s mechanics are, you will probably realize there are just no mechanics.
Recreating the animal crossing sound effects based on this was a lot of fun as well.
Special thanks to Trever Mock Tutorial on both the Dialogue System and Ink
(Narrative) Design Process:
*Considering how little work I’ve done on another part of design during this game jam, it is questionable whether this is a game.”
I have two friends having their birthday during the week and an old friend who absolutely hates their birthday. As the theme goes towards Make Me Laugh, the idea of using Laugh as the “end” popped up.
I realize “laugh” is a complex idea because we usually laugh even when we are not happy; sometimes, we would even laugh at morally grey jokes. Are those laughs justifiable? But considering this project’s scope, I decided to branch off that and use Laugh as a tool to examine one’s existence.
Post-Mortem
This project went wild in terms of the scope. I initially planned the game as a puzzle game with choices but time went short right after I implemented the narrative system. Due to time and other responsibilty, I have to stop at this point at call this a interactive poetry.
EcceHomoLudens 