Another Tuesday is a 2D game jam game made in Unreal Engine 5 for the Global Game Jam Vancouver 2024, and was my first game jam. With the theme of a jam to "make people laugh", the idea was for it to be a simple action survival game where players attempt to survive multiple floors of enemies. The players takes control of Chad, a bartender that was fired from his job at the bar as he goes on a rampage to destroy in social relationships. This includes fighting enemies such as his buff gym friends, his religious cousins, some funky-looking kids, and finally his ex-wife. The ex-wife in particular was meant to show up once on one of the early floors as a joke boss that seems intimidating, but can be beaten in one hit. Due to constraints such as time and recruiting a programmer late, we were only able to achieve a portion of our full game plan which was a learning experience. To showcase some of these ideas, I created a mockup video in Adobe Premiere that includes some cut content such as different attacks and a missing enemy.

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My contributions:

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In this project, I served two roles with the smaller one being that of the game designer that came up with the initial game concept. My main role that that of the artist who created the pixel arts graphics seen in the game and video mockup. I illustrated these 2D sprites using Aseprite, an illustration program geared towards making animated sprites. 

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In total, I created 5 character sprites (1 player and 4 enemies), a foreground tile sheet, and a city background. This was done over a couple of days in the evening alongside other group tasks such as attending meeting calls and planning with my teammates. In order to be in-line with the game's comedic theme, I had the enemies in the game showcase a bunch of exaggerated proportions. The buff gym friends had huge arms, the cousins had large legs, and the kids had large heads. The game's boss, the Ex-Wife was made to look monstrous as to fit what most divorcees probably view their spouses as should it be a particularly nasty separation.

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On the final workday, I decided to create a video mockup using the sprites I made as well as the audio that our team's audio designer made. This showcases a cut enemy as well as some other animations that didn't make it to the final game and was made in Adobe Premiere. You can view the mockup at the top of this page.

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