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Hot Date

Platform

PC

Tools Used

Unity

Roles

Game Designer, Gameplay Programmer (C#), Producer

Duration

48 hours

Hot Date is a frantic top-down 2D game involving putting out fires set in your apartment by your demon cat while you are waiting for your Tinder date to arrive. This project was done through Laguna College of Art and Design's 48-hour game jam. 

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Click here to download the game from itch.io

Responsibilities

â–ª Served as sole engineer for the project, implementing all assets, game functionality, menus, and polish.

â–ª Designed gameplay and managed project scope based on team's story, art, and conceptual ideas, and my own capabilities

â–ª Advised artists new to game dev on asset creation, including drawn perspective consistency, file formatting, animation functions, and pixel dimensions.

Team

Ari Mozayan

2D Art

Zero Perkins

2D Art, SFX

Shelby Ford

2D Art, SFX

Clay Mussfeldt

2D Animation

Key Features

â–ª Fire extinguisher toggle mechanic that impacts player mobility and speed

â–ª Sequenced cat movement path and timing designed around a short learning curve and rapidly increasing intensity for a short, contained, one- or two-time experience

â–ª Object burn timer that varies depending on object's material and flammability

â–ª Apartment presentability meter that uses values of each object's importance in the space (i.e., intact couch is more valuable than intact plant)

â–ª Two different game endings depending on the apartment's presentability level at the time your Tinder date arrives

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