HEART TO HEART
ROLE
Lead Game Designer / Programmer
DESCRIPTION
Heart to Heart is an exploratory narrative game in which puzzles are solved by picking up clues through interacting with your environment and other characters, using discovered items in precise orders to get desired results.
YEAR
2020
DURATION
5 Days
TOOLS USED
Unity, C#, Adobe Photoshop
AWARDS
Mentor's Choice ArtCenter ENTD Jam FA20
EXPERIENCE AND TAKEWAYS
We wanted to make a short narrative experience through our game, dialing down the scope from multiple levels to showcasing one polished level, and opting for a point-and-click gameplay to support puzzle elements.
My role in the jam was as a game designer and programmer, prototyping the game mechanics in Unity, alongside one of the animators who also had programming experience.
CONTRIBUTIONS
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Designed and implemented gameplay systems
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Wrote design documentation
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Character Art Support
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Sound Design
Game Intent
Our intent with Heart to Heart was to make a fun and short vertical slice of what could be a larger narrative experience with multiple levels and puzzles to go through.
However, due to the limitations at the time, we scoped down and decided to focus on polish and quality rather than quantity to show off our concept.
Game Walkthrough