Make Your Own Friends

Inspiration

We were inspired by games like Pico Park and Fireboy and Waterboy and other puzzle platformer style games where you control multiple characters working together to beat the level.

What it does

You were trapped by an experiment gone wrong. Using powerful orbs released by the experiment you can duplicate yourself into different, more powerful variants. Now, you must work together with your variants to solve puzzling levels and escape from the lab!

We chose to follow the third prompt which tasked us to make a game centred around Collaboration. We decided to incorporate this by having the player need to use multiple duplicates of themself to solve puzzles and escape from the lab.

How we built it

We built the game in Unity with C# using art from OpenGameArt.org as well as our own art designed in Aseprite, Procreate, and Paint. Art credits for art not created by us: Game Developer Studio for the laboratory tileset which we then modified hassekf for the Sci-Fi Background Cpt_Flash for the 2D Wooden Box

Challenges we ran into

We found it challenging to get all the systems working as well as transition from our placeholder models to the assets we used in the end. It was difficult getting the characters to be able to pick up other characters and throw them.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of being able to complete most of what we set out to do in the very short 24 hour time period. While some of it is a little rough, basically everything works the way we wanted in some capacity.

What we learned

We learned more about Unity, creating UI and full game systems. We also learned about tilemaps and how to distribute tasks in a fairly smooth way to work together on one game in Unity over Github.

What's next for Make Your Own Friends

We would like to polish the game more, and fix more buggy issues. Also, making the game design smoother and adding more levels are things we would like to work on more.

How to use the game

In the github repo linked below, there is a release that includes a windows executable to run the game. The controls are: A and D to move Space to jump as the Jumper S to shrink as the Shrinker C to swap between your duplicates F to pick up other duplicates R to throw the duplicates you are carrying E to interact with objects like the exit doors Lastly, use Escape to pause