Role: Lead Developer and Designer
Year: January 2023
Engine: Unity
Platform: Desktop
Target Audience: primarily strategy audience, potential to move to mobile.
Available at: Link temporarily down.

Description:

This project was for GGJ23 and the theme was roots. Me and my team had a bet going on and what was closest to the theme was what we would make a game about. In this case bananas. We came up with a tower defence game in which you would have to defend your banana tree from the anti banana forces, and would have to build banana turrets and root pools to grow strong.

What did I do:

• Managed the team and directed them in what tasks we needed to do to get the game operational and playable for the two day period we had.
• Mostly programming.
• Some UI work.
• Organised the scenes.
  
  

Challenges:

This game was scoped appropriately, that said there was lots more I wanted to do with it. It definitely felt like a game made against the time, and out of us three none were programmers, and I took that as a personal challenge to grow my own ability in that field, because I saw the benefit of being able to do more with that in my later projects (such as Polis Polemos).
The team gelled well together, and if not for other things going on, its entirely likely we would have done more with this post GGJ.
When it came to the target audience I think as a team we all took a bit more laidback approach to this and just wanted to make something bizarre and fun. So I wasn’t entirely sure what or indeed who the target demographic would be, in hindsight I would say a mobile strategy audience might be the best candidate.
When it came to iterative development we didn’t really utilise it all that much as we were on very tight timelines, so it was a case of try something, test that it worked, and move onto the next issue rapidly.
I really wanted to have different types of enemies, different types of friendly/tower bananas, and add a little more to the humour aesthetic.