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Gobblin’ Goblins by Team #5 – Goblettes

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We’ll be streaming from the Jamboree starting at 5:15PM PDT on our Kingdoms of Heckfire Twitch account. 

A few more pics from our Jamboree! 

After three days of flexing our creative/coding/blogging muscles – the final products are HERE. Presenting our Teams!

Team #1 – Goblin Jam Game: Party in my Tavern

Party in My Tavern is equal parts fun, simple and addictive. It’s a bit like Mario Party except all you need to bring is your mobile device and a bunch of friends. These competitive mini-games will only require the simplest controls, but they sure will bring loads of drunken fun!

Team #2 – 2 Much Awesome Game: Battle Boozers

Beer pong + Clash Royale = Battle Boozers. Attempt to take down your enemy’s villagers in a hectic, local, competitive multiplayer experience! Every time your villages get hit you must drink. The more you drink, the less control you have. Outlast your opponent to be the drinking champion. You’ll never know what this crazy world will throw at you!

Team #3 – Heckfighters Game: Heckfighter Inspired by the early days of Project Kraken, when Tapapalooza (incemental game where you tap for resources) became a thing. Heckfighter takes a smashing screen to a new level. Players enter Olga’s betting ring where two foes are randomly selected to fight. Those waiting on the sidelines place their bets on who will win (running commentary obviously exists) and the victor gets a cut of the betting pool. This is basically a tap-off game where you place your salty bets fast and furiously. 

Team #4 – Octo-Rocks Game: Collateral Hammage

Octo-Rocks drew their inspiration from the elementary school yard game, red Rover. Collateral Hammage is all about battles over ham! Two teams made up of troops, villagers, spearmen and dragons meet in the middle to fight over hams in re-enactment of the exploits of the legendary hero, Hocklin. The strongest team wins their victory over a gory battle!

Team #5 – Goblettes Game: Gobblin’ Goblins

Dragon Snack Attack is inspired by the Goblettes’ shared characteristics. What state are they always in? Hunger. What do they really like? Snacks. What shouldn’t they touch, typically? Butts. So they thought, hey, what about a game incorporating all three and some historically accurate dragons? Absolutely.

Team #5 – Salty Hams Game: Ham It Up!

Appendix to Goblinterview with Tiffany Tang. She’s really good at creating our assets.

Here’s Jodie’s battle station! Yes, those are goblin heads. Why are they there? Let’s just say Olga doesn’t like Goblins. Here’s the interview:

Q - What did you initially hope to achieve?

A - To have a really good time, and also, dragons.

Q - What did you have to leave out?

A - A whole ton of FX → wanted to go bananas… I should make a banana effect

Q - Why did you focus on this feature?

A - I wanted to learn something new and I had some experience with FX in the past. I wanted to learn Sprite Kit and see how I could help out.

“Yeeeeeeees, I have working outlines!” –Ivy 

Check out flashy splash screen! So. Cute.

Sae Young is apparently a floating cup of coffee. We don’t see anything wrong with that. Like all of team 2MA’s interviews, this was short and to the point.

Q - What feature/function are you making right now?

A - Implementing happy hour feature and other multipliers

Q - What problem are you solving?

A - Making the happy hour actually work

We’re coming up on the deadline for the Game Jam — all games should be playable by 1pm PDT, which is in about an hour and a half. The team is busy working to connect all the parts everyone has worked on to make a unified whole. Getting all those moving parts to work together is harder than it looks!

This is Tyler. He’s our top wizard when it comes to all things graphical. He’s also super thorough when it comes to interviews:

Q - What approach are you taking to this design based on the kind of game we’re making?

A - None of your business

Q - What programs/techniques do you prefer to use and why?

A - No… this interview is over.

The clock is ticking and the Salty Hams team is hard at work on having a finished game in preparation for the Game Jamboree. The team has a late night, but luckily there’s an endless supply of coffee at the offices here.

Come 4PM we’ll be demoing the game to all of the Game Jamboree attendees. If you’re in the Vancouver area and planning to stop by the Game Jamboree come say hi! If you’re not, fear not as we’ll be sharing a look at the finished game here as well!

Salty already has his eyes on the trophy!