Day of Juniper

A journey and adventure of their own as they get the chance to explore the world outside of their enclosed community. With the Botanical Dex from a traveller that once crossed through the community and was on his way to the seed vault and the advice of the elder, they set out on the day-long journey. The game is a 2D adventure game with light platforming and focus on exploration and world building through a dex and journal that will help keep track of objectives and things learned. (Buddy Up Jam submission)


Contributions

Botanical Dex/Journal
  • Adding entries to the Botanical Dex and updating the user interface to display those collected.
  • Loading/Saving dex entires when transitioning from one scene to another.
Interactable(s)
  • Interactable can be picked up, inspected, talked to, or be used.
  • The type of interaction would trigger different events. Some events themselves would also have options to be changed.
  • Examples

  • canPickUp -> isAPlant
  • canTalkTo -> triggerDialogue -> triggerDialogueBasedOnInteractableCollected
  • canUse -> triggerDexUpdate/triggerJournalUpdate
Player Controller
  • Logic to handle the player movement and jumping with physics (drag/velocity).
  • Camera handling based on the bounds of the scene background and player's position.
  • Handling animation states plus passing information on when the player should change state.
  • Examples

  • Idle -> Movement -> Idle
  • Idle/Movement -> Jumping -> Idle/Movement

More Information

Credits

Alexis Serna - Gameplay Programmer

Hanine El Mir - Narrative Designer and Writer

Kimimeow - Game and Narrative Designer

Les (XLEHX) - Character Designer, UI & Concept Artist

MellBerri - Background Artist

Nils Kwiatowski - Music

Download

To download, head to the itch.io or Repository link provided below

itch.io Link

https://arnabitakhdar.itch.io/day-of-juniper

Repository Link

https://github.com/ArnabitAkhdar/the-jam-jar

Tools Used

Art Software - Clip Paint Studio

Game Engine - Unity Game Engine

Project Management - Trello


Screenshots