Hi everyone! We're Mads and Rachel, two recent art school graduates who want to start making our own video games. We're new to this and game jams in general, but we're excited to be here and try it out!
Rachel's favorite games include Hollow Knight, Breath of the Wild, and Twewy, and Mads's are Bloodborne/Dark Souls, Hyper Light Drifter, and Minecraft. They may seem very different, but both of us love games that tell stories through environment and gameplay with giant worlds for us to spend hours exploring. Rachel is newer to game development, though they've played around with RPG Maker and are interested in working with Unity. Mads is familiar with Unity and took a few game design classes in college, though they don't really consider themselves an expert. We've both taken at least one class about game theory and history, and have a lot of great game ideas!
Both of us graduated in Illustration this past May at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Art is definitely our strength, but we're working on our programming skills and are hoping this game jam will give us the opportunity to improve. We thought this would be a great summer project to participate in while we look for jobs and just generally try to figure out our lives post-grad. Can't wait to get started!!