Hey everyone!

We're very proud to present you our first game, first LD, first Jam!

It's called Hatty & Tom, the theme was "Sacrifices must be made", and we decided to make a short story-driven 3D Sidescroller in which you start at the final boss, and have to make sacrifices along the way to get back to your hometown. You're Tom, seeking adventures and glory with your living-hat-bunny friend, Hatty, who guides you through the Voxel-style world you're part of. The game has been made to be played with a controller but you can still play it with a keyboard, the binds are listed at the end of this text.

This is the first time we're making a game and we're honestly very proud of it, it makes us happy considering the fact that we were a team of 3 which was very unexperienced in the game development domain. Our team consisted of Dumbeldor (programmer), Emeffe (programmer), and Pokang (beginner artist)! We all learnt how to use Unreal Engine on the run and we learnt a whole lot during this jam, working in a restricted environment really brings up the best out of a learning experience. We didn't sleep a lot and we worked super hard to bring a decent game for you guys and for ourselves, and we're very satisfied with what we made, we hope you will enjoy it! Everything happened super fast and we weren't seeing time passing by!

Now that I've shortly introduced our game and team I will enter in the more technical details for those interested.

To make this game, we've used these resources :

-Unreal Engine 4
-MagicaVoxel (thank you ephtracy ily so much?)
-Mixamo
-Photoshop
-Audacity
-LMMS
-GitHub

About the assets, every voxel asset has been made by Pokang on MagicaVoxel and he's super thankful for ephtracy who made such an intuitive and beautiful software to use. We've chosen to use Mixamo for rigging and animations because it makes decent, fast and cool animations, that can be a little goofy sometimes, which we enjoy! We've used Photoshop for a few UI assets, and all the sound effects have been recorded by Pokang and his scuffed mic with various objects around his apartment. The super short music loop has been made by Pokang on LMMS, he's never really made music before so the track is very simple, we didn't want to have a near to silent world and we didn't want to use other's people assets! All the rest has been made by our super cool programmers who have made an crazy job at learning UE4 along their path to enlightment and who learnt a whole lot of cool things during the development of the game. We're impressed at how many things we've come to acheive during the 72 hours of the jam and these things include :

-A cool main menu
-A lot of animations for characters
-A fighting system
-An equipment system with items you can drop when needed
-A dialog system which brings a story we entirely wrote and imagined from scratch
-Crouching, jumping, movement features
-A platformer part
-A healing system
-A very short cinematic
-A checkpoint system
-Very mean enemies that attack you just for the sake of it
-Credits!
-An excessive theine consumption by the team

Now to give a little background about where this all started, Dumbeldor and Emeffe are both students and friends in the same class, and Dumbeldor met Pokang during another project which is called Skyrim Together, a Skyrim mod that has the objective of bringing multiplayer and coop to Skyrim.

Feel free to tell us your honest opinion about our game, we'd love to hear it even if it's not positive!

We're looking forward to playing all of your awesome submissions guys, I've personally noted some of them that I REALLY want to play.

Thank you Ludum Dare to give us this wonderful opportunity to train ourselves and create cool stuff, we enjoyed this event so much as a team.