Title :

GENRE : Exploration/ Survival

DA : 8 bit/retro

Developer team :

GRaphic engine : Unity

THEME : « Start with nothing »

PITCH : The player embodies a strange creature just waking up from what seems to be a long sleep. After usig his capacity “sonar” for the first time, the walls of an ancient cave will briefly appear. In order to finally reach the so coveted exit, the player will have to be on the lookout, because he is not alone...

Screenshots:

A few words about the creators: ANGRY NERDS/ Aka The studio

A team created by students from Gamesup, a French video game school, we wanted to challenge ourselves to create a game with a predefined theme in such a limited amount of time. The stress due to all of the different constraints and the proximity (9 persons gathered in the same room, for the happiness of ours dearest neighbors) gave us a taste of what a professional project can be, with moments of sadness that will make the playwrights cries, but we will get to it later.

Just like in every self-respecting game project, the Game artists payed the price of the general lack of communication (I’m just specifying that text was written by a GAs, me, I’m just saying out loud what every Game artist thinks. The GDs lost an enormous amount of time to make complexes level design in papers cut and glued in a false cardboard (witch were all cut from a cereals box, the respect his gone, so far away), reminding themselves that Visio existed, 1 day before the deadline.

The professionalism at his highest.

The programmer, named Hugo, but I prefer to refer at him has “the guy who save the Jam” cause of his scripting talent, found amusing to ask the GAs to create that much model sheets and modular backgrounds/decorative elements (long live to the retro 8-bit). I didn’t count the number of failures and restarts, but watching the faces of the GDs bashed by some difficulties relaxes me.

It was our first time making an 8-bit game and create animation props, a rough experience but enjoyable. Ours Artistic Headmistress (Éline) fell in depression many times, for obscures reasons. Some artists felt sick (or had to, like, sleep. Obviously overrated) and were forced to quit the ship before the deadline.

We’ll never forget them.

I’m the only survivor, surrounded by strangers, making unspeakable noises, searching for problems that doesn’t even exist, patting keyboards like robots for their monstrous god: Unity. It's actually during one of these moments of craziness that I took the time to wright those magnificent words just for you, who got through this (particularly longer than needed) text filled with ... nothingness, just a French humor touch.

Whatever if the game correctly launches, we would improve it. If the game can’t be played at his launch, we will take revenge and slaughter the GDs, because I don’t know what to do with this kind of situation... Whatever is the finalized result, the simple fact to see the beginning of a game which comes directly from our under slept brains, always gives us the same feeling : “I want to see more, when do we continue?”

May our game amused you, and yours be accomplished