Video Game

Zombie Friends

Introducing Zombie Friends, a game I developed as part of a game jam I joined in 2022 as solo developer. The goal of the jam was simple – make a game within 2 weeks that connects with a certain theme pre-defined by the event organizers.

Date

July 2, 2022

Client Name

Shuffle 8

Journey to Vitality

The theme of the game jam was focused around one word – “Health” and so the first challenge was to actually take this word and give it a bit more context so it eventually becomes an idea for a game. Since this was my first game jam ever, the second and most challenging part about it was to actually make the idea something that can be achieved within 2 weeks. Keeping all this in mind I eventually decided to choose an early idea which answered the criteria of the jam and also wasn’t too complicated to achieve within a 2 weeks period. The idea was simple – Give the player a gun that can heal zombies, throw some obstacles along the way to add some challenge, a few pick ups for fun, wrap a story around it and that’s it.
I ended up finishing the game jam exhausted and yet I was extremely satisfied with the various challenges I managed to overcome. After all, in the end I came up with an idea for a game, made every asset from scratch and developed the entire functionality all on my own so I couldn’t be happier.
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