Waddles' Way Home (GGJ 2021)

Global Game Jam 2021 Team Project - 2D Platformer

Waddles' Way Home - Main Menu

Waddles' Way Home was made during Global Game Jam 2021.
Made in Unity with PlayMaker. Art assets made in Adobe Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint.
Music made in BeepBox.

Game Concept and Design by Lightning Sharks
Mechanics by Nicholas Stacey and Jerome Doyle
Level Design by Nicholas Stacey And Jerome Doyle
Environment Art by Leah Snook
Character Art by Marc White
Narrative by Nicholas Mugford
Music by Kody McGrath
SFX by Jerome Doyle
Playtesting by Jerome Doyle
Menu Art and animation by Keely Whelan
Menu UI Art by Keely Whelan
In-Game UI Art by Leah Snook

Lightning Sharks consists of Nicholas Stacey, Jerome Doyle, Leah Snook, Marc White, Nicholas Mugford, Kody McGrath, and Keely Whelan

With the GGJ 2021 theme "Lost and Found", our team came up with the idea of a lost teddy bear returning home to its' owner.

My role on the team was the Menu and Menu UI artist, which included background images for the Main Menu, Credits menu, Game Over Screen, and End Menu, as well as UI and animations for those menus.

Playing on the theme of toys and children, we decided to make the game into a storybook. The menus turned into book covers, and the credits page reimagined the idea of the "This Book belongs to" pages of a child's book. The opening narrative of the game was also told with a page-flip animation to really emphasize the storybook concept.

Additionally, many children get creative with their things, so the menu UI was inspired by things like crayons and stickers- things that Waddles' owner would have used to decorate their book.