Portfolio Noor Briké - Little Beach Buds

Shhh! Grandpa's asleep! Lets keep it that way so we can play with the other kids on the beach and assemble a paper flower bouquet for grandma!

Group project with:

Seb Van Looveren

Oscar Goffin

Tristan Delheye

Jules De Smet

This is a story based game where you walk around the beach collecting shells to buy paper flowers for your grandma. Depending on how nice your bouquet looks at the end you will gain a higher score. But every so often an event takes place that threatens grandpa's beauty sleep: the sun shines in his eyes, he gets thirsty, he gets plagued by seagulls... It's your job to keep him asleep, otherwise you will go home and the fun will be over! Luckily the other kids have some items that can help you with this. Talk and play with the other kids in the hopes they'll be an asset to you, or just to make some new friends!

This project was a real game design challenge: we wanted to capture feelings of togetherness and nostalgia while keeping the game single player. We achieved this by having multiple NPC's and giving them quirky personalities portraying the typical Belgian 10 year old, or at least how we remembered it. Some want to play, some want to compete and others are just complete materialists. There are also NPC's requesting items from / referring to other NPC's, encouraging the player to talk to multiple.

I'm really happy with what we were able to achieve with the team in the 4 months we had for this project. Most players found the dialogue really funny and tried the game multiple times to get a high score or find all the minigames, which shows we at least achieved making a fun game!