Game #5: Brackeys Game Jam

Overview

Taking a break from the longer project that is Game #5, I decided to jump back into the game jam world and have some fun with the Brackeys Game Jam. The jam theme is "It Is Not Real". I tried to think all morning about what I wanted to base my game on, when all of a sudden my fiance was telling me about this New York Times story she was reading about people backing a conspiracy theory about how birds aren't real. This of course fit the topic of the theme wonderfully!

I then brainstormed this idea quite a bit and came up with the following idea. You play as a bird who overhears some people talking about how they believe birds aren't real. This obviously upsets you, so you decide to make it known to the imbecile humans that birds are in fact real. So what do you do... you poop on them of course! 

Gameplay Idea

Playing off the idea of pooping on the humans, the gameplay loop will be to fly around the environment and poop on the humans to ensure they know that birds are real. Sometimes you may not have enough poop though. Therefore, you will need to ensure you eat some worms to refill your bowels for the ammo needed to poop. I also will try and make a background story to unfold as you fly around and poop on the humans. I haven't figured out this idea fully yet, but I feel like there is a lot of potential to tell a quirky fun story while you accomplish your goal of showing humans how real you are with your poop.

Progress

So far I have been able to buy a quick asset pack to put a scene together and also added the basic player movement and flight controls. Further, I added a "glide" mechanic so you can glide and stay in the air a bit easier. Next, I will work to make the stamina and poop meters. After those, I will start to try and put a non placeholder in for the bird and also add some humans to the scene. Looking forward to building this out futher!