Hello, I am Camille Laborderie, a Junior Game Designer!

This game was made in partnership with ESPPERA, a French association of doctors and nurses, and the Léon Berard research center. The goal was a game for children to play with their parents and nursing staff, and teach the latter that it is sometimes worth leaving the hospital and missing some treatments to go on holiday trips, make souvenirs, and actually live.

In this project, I was in charge of the design and development of the 3Cs. There were two major challenges: a very short development time, 5 weeks, and making the game run smoothly on mobile browsers.

The idea was to make an input manager and some components that would act as an event dispatcher and event listeners. Then some custom scripts could subscribe to those listeners and execute their methods accordingly. I made four listeners: Can be clicked, Can be hovered, Can be dragged, and Can be snapped.

With those four it allows us to quickly create characters (using all of them), pick-ups (not using Can be snapped), enemies (Can be hovered and Can be snapped), etc. Then it was mainly tweaking parameters and scripts to make it feel the best I could in 5 weeks.

I then help design and integrate the key locations of the game. I was able to reuse my listeners to speed up the integration.

On the art side, at the start of the project, I unraveled and summarized the integration pipeline for 2D assets, as nobody in the team knew it, and I was the closest to a tech artist. Approaching the end of the project I made two small shaders, one for a teleportation portal and one for a waterfall with the help of the 2D artists.

I am very proud of what we accomplished with my classmates in 5 weeks and I hope you'll enjoy it!

This project was made to demonstrate our capacity to create modular 3D assets to make our prototypes nicer. So we headed to a cartoonish and cell-shaded style with an orthographic camera (actually it was a very low FOV and very very very far away perspective camera, Unreal 5.2 had bugs on shadows and orthographic cameras).

To help us create levels faster, I created a tool that smoothes blockout cubes into nice and round merged cubes.

Combined with a few procedural shaders, based on a 3D Perlin noise for the rocky part and on a 3D Voronoi noise for the mossy part, it allows us to quickly create landscapes.

We also used this project to explore our envy to create a systemic puzzle game. But it will be in another episode! See you soon!

The game was initially developed on Unreal 5.2 as I was faster at prototyping on this engine. A few months later I ported the game to Unity to build it to WebGL, it was the occasion to fix some bugs and polish the game.

This game jam teaches me ways to prototype faster. For example, there is only one game object that handles both players, which makes the handling of inputs way easier.