A Global Game Jam 2020 Entry

Duel It Yourself (DIY) was developed within 48 hours by a team of 11. Although there were a lot of people, this was most of the team members' first game jam. I took on the role of Lead designer and producer. I wanted this game jam to be a learning experience for everyone involved and get them excited to participate in more jams in the future. Essentially, I wanted to help them overcome the fear of "not knowing enough" or "not being good enough".

DIY was originally conceptualized as a VR project for a separate assignment, but it did not come to fruition until later.  With that said, we re-envisioned this game as a quick, competitive arcade game for Global Game Jam. Overall I had a great time with the team.

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The game was inspired by the idea of Legos and building the biggest structure you could to show off to other people. Players would build guns simultaneously by pressing a sequence of keys to build a part until their gun was completely built. Then they would aim and fire and the first one to hit 3 times would win. We added gravity into the game as an equalizer in order to give slower players a chance to attack the faster players. Gravity affects the trajectory of the bullets shot and after every hit or miss, players would have to rebuild their gun to fire again.