Ready. Set. Horse!

Ready. Set. Horse! was developed in 48 hours for the Global Game Jam 2024. The theme was "Make Me Laugh".

We had a team of 4 people: 1 2D artist and 1 UI artist, 1 programmer and me as the game designer.

Since this was a game jam and time was of the essence, I also helped out with programming working along side my colleague.

The game is a mini-game frenzy (4 mini-games in total), where the aim is to get a high score before losing 3 lives.

The mini-games are:

The Theme

Our university organized an event/competition for the 48 hour jam so that is the one we ended choosing.

Every team at the event could brainstorm about the theme that had been revealed a few days before.

We first deliberated on whether to take the theme "Make me Laugh" literally and make the player themselves laugh through comedy, or make a character in the game laugh.

In the end we ended up with a mix of the two, with the idea of making a game that is light-hearted and fun while being about making the characters laugh.

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On the starting day I presented my team about 8-9 minigame ideas I had come up with.

Together we whittle them down to 4 choices, since we wanted to keep the scope small.

I then fleshed out how the minigames would work and how the overall flow of the game would go.

This included quickly designing a basic structure, minigame timer, lives and UX design.

Once I had the initial concept, I started helping my programmer, making a working prototype of some minigames to be able iterate as much as we could.

At the end of the 48 hours we were quite proud of the end result, since managed to do everything we had in our scope

I was especially proud since we had people with completely different levels of game development experience, as I believe that as the team coordinator I was able to harness what everyone was good at.

Won first place at the event in Leiria, which had the highest number of participants in the whole country