The office I work in has just run a Game Jam so I took the risk of humilating myself by entering against a bunch of coders when I can hardly rub two bits of JS together. What made it more fun was I chose to do it in 2D and use C# as the language which I’ve never used before.
Kirkby – The egotistical game from the Gamejam
The theme of the Jam was Retro so I went for an 8-bit look and settled for an endless runner style game based on ME. Yes, I am an egotistical maniac with delusions of grandeur. The final game is available on this very website.
As its a running gag about my surname being spelled Kirby, not Kirkby, I went with the idea of creating a tiny me that looks like the Nintendo character. I created all of the graphics in game in Photoshop and then imported them into Unity. It was an interesting little project and I can think of a few things to tweak to improve it if I ever find the motivation.
Just incase you missed that link to play the game about me then its here.
Clone Attack
I also helped out on the intro for another game which was created by one of the chaps in the office. I created two intro videos for it and the first one was a straight motion graphic mashup.
The second one used CG elements in Cinema 4D with a retro TV model from Pixel Lab.
To make the second video I shot some wobbly video of a table then motion tracked it in After Effects create a 3d camera. The camera was then imported into Cinema 4D where the 3d scene was created, then that was then imported back into After Effects using Cineware rather than rendering the footage out of C4D. This meant I was able to tweak the project on the fly rather than have to rerender everything every time I made a change.
Finally, just to prove that sometimes my work and home life overlaps a bit, I was asked to make one of the awards for the Jam. So, I present the “Peoples Choice Award Golden Joystick” made from an old Atari joystick, sprayed gold.
The final winner for both the main competition and People choice award was Clone Attack and well done to all who entered. I will try and grab some links to everyones game and add them below when I can.
Awesomeness