✝IN LOVING MEMORY✝

GMTK 2021 Game Jam Theme: "Joined Together"

✝ MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• 2x Players 🧍🧍
• 1x Gamepad 🎮

✝ NICE TO HAVE FOR EXTRA FUN

• 4x Players 🧍🧍🧍🧍
  
• 2x Gamepads 🎮🎮

✝ PITCH

A dark-themed cooperative Octodad-like physics game.

✝ HOW TO WIN

• Carry the coffin until the end of the hallway and put it on the altar.
• Try to stay synchronized with the other players.

✝ HOW TO LOSE

• If a pallbearer is to far from the coffin, he will drop it.
• If a pallbearer is hit by an obstable, he will also drop the coffin.
• If the corpse get out of the coffin, you lose.

✝ TIPS

• Pallbearers have a stamina system. The higher they lift the coffin, the quicker they will walk. But they also get tired more rapidly. If they run out of stamina, they will rest for a few seconds.

✝ CREDITS

Game Design, Graphic Design, Sound Design, Programming

• Karl Fayeton

(PlayStation Gamepad 3D model courtesy of Alexis Bastieri)

Music tracks

• Astronomia by Tony Igy
• Marche Funèbre (Sonate pour Piano n°2), Frédéric Chopin

✝ TECHNOLOGY

• Unity 2021.1
• Audacity
• Photoshop
• Unity Plugins: ProBuilder, DOTween, Rewired

✝ INSPIRATION

The famous meme video of the fabulous Dancing Pallbearers.

✝ POST MORTEM

• I made this jam solo, so graphics and sound are pretty basic, unfortunately.
• I didn't know how to make a proper ragdoll, so I used Spring Joints on capsules to tie them together, which can cause bugs (but they're fun to watch so it's ok).
• The most difficult design challenge was to teach players how to hold the controller together without having to make special art.
• I didn't have my headset, so audio mixing was made with the crappiest laptop built-in speakers. Sorry about that.
• I wanted to keep keyboard compatibility, but gameplay just didn't feel right without analog controls.  The game only works on gamepad with analog triggers.
• On the first draft, players were able to separately lift the coffin and walk forward. I tied the two commands on the same axis to better fit the theme (Joined Together), and to make the game more accessible.

✝ FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS (AFTER THE JAM)

• I will upload a new build with alternative joystick Y-Axis controls in addition of triggers.
• The webGL version crashed the whole page, some weird memory allocation issue, so I took it off. If I manage to solve the issue, I will get it back online.