Platformer Game MVP (7-hour Jam):

A simple platformer game MVP I put together in C# and Unity at a mini game jam within a 7-hour deadline.

This Was A Personal Challenge

• To put together a game from scratch within 7 hours
• To better familiarise myself with Unity game development.

Important Notes:

• As this was a Timeboxed Challenge:

  I purposefully have not improved on it since it was developed.

• The Challenge:

  • To push myself in a new domain within a 7-8 hour game jam deadline.

Thus:

• The Main Goals:

  • were not extraneous details like any character animations, levels or full-game effects or any starting or finishing animations.

  but rather:

  • some very basic placeholder art.
  • adding basic platformer game mechanics - jumping and some solid platforms, relevant physics and transforms.
  • adding parallax a.k.a 2.5D.
  • implementing basic camerawork - including camera-slide/drag when running or stopping suddenly.
  • doing this all within the deadline.

• My Overall Vision:

  • Implementing something quickly with the feeling of playing a game like Jazz Jackrabbit™.
    
    Or, if that's unfamiliar, more like the old Sonic The Hedgehog™ feel, with more precision jumping than speeding required.