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Game Jam : Game OFf 2022 : Mythos Run

November 2022 I entered the Game Off 2022 game jam with 13,500 other game makers. I knew from the begining I wanted to join a team. I have to admit, I joined several teams before I found the right one for me. The first team was not very active. I get it is a month long game jam, but I like to get things moving. I have a busy job and lifestyle so I don't have very much time and I hate to waist time. Needless to say I skipped off and joined the next team that wanted a new member. That team was great at first, then I realized it was more of a game building community of many projects going on at the same time and no one knew what was really going on so I bounced. Lucky for me I was not too involved. I just made a few concept designs based on the cliche "The Apple Doesn't fall far from the tree."  First I designed the name of the game and a few concepts for logos:

Fallen Apple : Father & SoN

Quickly after comming up with a logo and designing some rough ideas I began on the character concepts. I tried to keep in mind it is a game jam. I have to remember this because I can tend to go way to far. So I decided I neeeded the Dad, the son, and atleast one enemy. So This is the original idea. 

I had alittle fun with the characters and put them into poses. The dad in his angry mode and the son hitting a monster. 

Looking over everything I really liked the concept and thought that a 3D game would be the best fit for the game. Thats while I started modeling this. 

This is how far I got when I realized no one was hekping me and everyone else just wanted to make up new ideas and story lines. So I was going to go solo till I recieved a message from another Discord member inviting me to join their team. I happily joined the team and the Fallen Apple game idea would have to be put away. 

The new group I joined was on the ball. We started off strong and kept things moving all the way though. The story was interesting and the concept sounded fun. 

Story

The main player is a reporter who  travels the world to research monsters. He decides to travel to Romainia and books a room with Dr Acula. I will leave it here. The story is a Vampire tale and I don't want to spoil the game for you. If you have free time you should give it a try. The image below will take you to the game page. It is free to play.

My Part In The Game

II did a few drawings but not too much. The 2D artist where really good and I was asked to do 3D modeling. So that is what I focused on most of the Jam. 

3D Modeling Refence Setup

For each character I created a 3D Model refrence. I attached some to give you an Idea of how I did it. A Full front view t-Pose and a side view. Thats all I needed to make the simple models. 

3D Modeling

I decided to make simple models that that I would have enough time to complete them all by the end of the jam. I was very happy with how they turned out. I used blender and photoshop for the whole processs. My modeling skills have inproved greatly and I am getting better with hotkeys. I might make some videos in the future of my process. 

3D ModeL Texturing

I made very simple textures for my models. This proved to be very effecient for creating Game Jam Assets for the game. I made simple color dots on a black background in photoshop and put the player image in the corner to make the image easy to identify.

Extras

I made somethings for the game for practice that never made it into the game. Unfortanaly there just wasn't enough time. So here are the extras:

More Extras

I had such a good time working with the wonderful people that made our team. I couldn't help myself but to create a cool little Animated Gif opf Our charcters dancing in a celebration. 

Gameplay Screen Shots

Please take time and play the game. It would also meaqn alot to us if you let us know what you think.