This game was created as part of a five day long mandatory game jam during our second semester. The topic of the game jam was 'A game for your mother'.

My team, consisting of five members, imagined a 2D stealth game about the mother of the greek hero Heracles, who helps her son with his hero duties.

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You can download the game from here (itch.io)

Be aware that the game is only available in german at the moment.

As a short explanation:
Heracles is trying to fight Kerberos, the guard dog of the underworld. You play as Heracles' mother Alkmene, who knows, that her son won't be able to achieve victory on his own. You have to help Heracles to get to Kerberos by clearing the path in front of him and feeding the dog to make him sleepy, without getting spotted by your son or the inhabitants of the underworld.

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My tasks in this project mainly consisted of:

The general Game Design - That was done with the whole group, from the basic game idea to the development of Mechanics and Map Design.

Engine Operation and Scripting - We built the game in Unity and were given a plug-in with several basic scripts to build the game logic, but I still had to program some parts myself.

The Voice 'Acting' - I can't really comment on this. Once you play the game, you will understand.

Since this was my first experience with a game jam and with Unity, I had a huge learning experience while building this game. Because of the limited time, we also had to plan and organize very efficiently, which we were really successful in. We even had time to sneak in a little easter egg!

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In the end, we were really proud on what we had achieved with little time and prior experience. However, we are still aware of some flaws with the game in it's current state:

The animations take up a large part of the game size and drastically increase loading times, because we had no idea how to correctly implement them at the time. We will probably look into this problem in the future.