Day 1

Day 1 at the week long game jam at Caledonian University! We split up into teams and were asked to create a game with the constraint of  "Friends and enemies". Our team name is Team Nyan, and there are seven of us - Mitch, Chelsea, Suneil and Leanne are primarily designers and Alisdair, Robert and Reiss are the programmers.

We threw around ideas about RISK/Total War type games and visual novel type games. We settled on the idea of a game on the Rapture. The player is God and is sending 'sinners' to Hell and 'saints' to Heaven. The game will consist of a point click system and pushing spacebar to change whether to send the target click to Heaven or Hell.

We fleshed out the idea over a few hours. In the first hour we made the decision to make it part 3D, part 2D and have a retro feel about it. It will be created on Unity3D using C sharp. In this hour we also split up the tasks between ourselves. After this, we made a start on these tasks.

Designers - Chelsea, Mitch, Leanne, Suneil
Programmers - Alisdair, Reiss, Robert
Artist - Chelsea, Mitch, Suneil
Sound - Suneil, Leanne

Reiss, Alisdair and Robert are making the prototype for the game. They have created the basic scripts to spawn cubes and move them. They are also working on the "judgement" element of the game; whether the player has added the correct cube to the correct area, "Heaven" or "Hell". Mitch and Chelsea have their ideas on paper, ready to import these ideas once the programmers have got the basic elements completed.

The blog posts are written by the delightful Suneil and Leanne (Mitch is also an admin though, so he'll edit a lot of what we say thankfully) and we hope to bring you exciting feedback on what we're up to each day!