Made for "The Game Design" jam 2025 together with Ana Nuñez
A family is preparing to celebrate… by cooking you! Gobble food to fuel your farty escape before you’re served . But beware: poisonous bites will make you puke your last snacks!! 🐠💨
The theme of the jam was "celebration", which we had to base our main mechanic around. After some brainstorming we concluded that all traditional celebrations have a "preparation", the "event" and the inevitable "end"/climax. So we decided on a game where you're a fish being cooked, trying to escape it's fate.
During the "preparation" you eat lots of food to fuel up and during the "event" you use your accumulated fart power to fart your way up. In the "end" you will lose (by using up all your power or taking too long) or reach the end and escape (climax!).
We envisioned it being a 2 player game, but due to the limited time of the jam (32 hours) we only made a single player prototype, with the goal of communicating the farting mechanic and general loop clearly.
Full gameplay video
My roles during this project:
- Game designer
- Programmer
What I learned:
- Iterating on ideas for a main mechanic
- Prototyping
- Conveying a mechanic clearly in a prototype
