Life's a Beach
Life's a Beach was a submission for Global Game Jam 2017 and it won "Best Overall Game" at the Depaul University site.
I was one of two programmers on our team and we wanted to portray a polished gameplay loop that consisted of local play and fun. Our goal for the 48 hour game jam was to make something off the theme of "waves". So we chose to create a game about hermit crabs trying to find the biggest shell that could protect them from the incoming waves. Each wave would push you back further if you weren't in a shell and once a player reached the biggest shell, the game is over!
On this project I was the one that programmed the wave movement as well the mechanic of pushing back other hermit crabs. This was my first Global Game Jam, the first project where I spent 48 continuous hours working on a game so it was a fun experience to see how much work I was able to get done within that short time frame.