Imagine for a moment a small, peaceful town of zombies. Suddenly, a cloaked man runs by
carrying in his hand what appears to be a sandwich. The zombies are confused, but are even more confused
when suddenly a fireball falls from the sky and a wizard runs by, punching one of the zombies in the face.
Welcome to the opening scene of Hunger Strike! If that's not random enough for you, then perhaps levels of flying
through the air dodging rocks or fighting bosses who use pillars to throw tomatoes at you will suit your needs.
Game Information
Placement x/10
Graphics: 8.3 1st Place
Sound: 8.4 1st Place
Gameplay: 5.9 3rd Place
Innovation: 6.2 4th Place
Completeness: 7.7 1st Place
Theme: 6.9 2nd Place
Overall: 7.8 1st Place
Music
Number of tracks: 8
Number of sound effects: 31
Tracks
Right-click and save-as to save the songs
Day 1: The project started off a bit rocky, as we originally didn't know what was going to go on gameplay-wise,
so the first day was spent making an entirely different game than the one we eventually completed.
The first idea was to design a game where there were two towers and the goal was to cast spells to destroy the other tower. This
eventually was scrapped because we couldn't think of any fun gameplay elements that would actually arise out of this. Later in day one we eventually all talked
on Skype for a while before eventually descending in to random blabber and drawings being sent over MSN, which eventually gave birth to
Hunger Strike!
Day 2: Now we actually began developing an engine for the game. I started off with the side-scrolling terrain and being able to move
the wizard. After that the gestures system was implemented to work with the wizard and his animations, adding the fire spell first.
Eventually I added support for the zombies, rain, and other features until level one was more or less complete. Later in day 2 I started
working on and nearly finished level two, with the boss being nearly complete.
Day 3: Finished the boss for level two and then began working on level three's scripting which was the most complex of the three levels.
Over the course of the day I worked on adding the winning/losing/title/options screens and linking everything together. A few sketches went in
to this process as there was quite a large spiderweb of inter-linking between the modules.
About eight hours before the end of the competition Morganne was finished artwork, so Josh and I worked on the game for a few hours before
deciding to rest. We were to get up about four hours before
the competition was finished to work on extra features, but my alarm was turned off and I ended up sleeping in with only one hour remaining in the
competition, giving just enough time to add the high scores feature to the first level and fix a typo in the instructions.
Screenshots
