Hammy and the Amazing Technicolour Hamster Ball
Dec 2015
The Brief
As a part of Ludum Dare 34, a game jam hosted at LudumDare.com, a team of 2 game developers, known as the Pie Chronicles, had 72 hours to make and submit a game demo. The jam chose a topic which participants could follow if they choose. The topics chosen were “growing” and/or “two button controls”.
Project Goal
The Pie Chronicles wanted to use the themes chosen by the game jam as a starting point when they were revealed. After brainstorming they concluded to use the theme “two button controls” for an idea they felt most appropriate to make in the time frame. Both developers wanted to make a game in 2D using Unity 5 as they hadn’t used it much before.
Hammy is a physics based obstacle course which sees a hamster ball traversing through levels to complete to reach end goals. Hammy’s hamster ball can change into 3 colours which makes interacting with obstacles more interesting. The colour of the ball must match the colour of the assets to get past them/interact with them. Hammy must collect the coloured seed before he can change colours.