So this is our first game jam! We are a team of 5 students, who just started this fall. We are programming in python with our school’s in house engine.

Yesterday…

It took us about an hour – hour 1/2 hours to get our idea concept. It’s inspired by the days playing Golden Eye 007  with Golden Guy, the one shot and one bullet gun.
We’ve been struggling getting controllers throughout the process, since it’s our first time any of us are using them. But we finally got everything working properly with the controls.
Now the only problem we are trying fix is the setup for players joining with keyboards and/or controllers.

The Game:

You can play up to 4 players in this arena duel. The goal is to be the last ninja standing. There is one shuriken that randomly is given to one player.
They throw the shuriken at the other players to try and kill them. If the shuriken hits a player, they will die. Players can take the risk of ducking under and catching the shuriken.
Ducking is for a very brief time, so doing it is very dangerous. Otherwise when the shuriken hits a wall it can be picked up by any player. The game is played till the number of kills you specify. You can also add number of rounds that are played, so to win you must win the majority of the rounds specified.

Progress:

Once we get the joining system working, we will have a fully playable build. We have four levels with assets, player assets are done but needed to be added and animated into the game, working on a few sounds to add. Another teammate has finished with basic AI pathing and now tweaking it, so you can play solo or fill in any empty slots with bots when playing with friends. We should have a playable build by the end of night hopefully… and tomorrow will be play-testing, balancing and polishing if we are on track.

Thanks for reading! Best to luck to everyone!