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The Autumn Express

Five Person Team | Cozy Autumn Game Jam 2022

September 2022

A cozy game about driving a tram through a serene autumn forest. Meet a cast of woodland characters along your travels. Take them to their stops and chat with them along the way.

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On Itch here!

On GitHub here!

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Responsibilities:

I was the project lead and programmer on this project.

My responsibilities included:

  • Project and team management

    • GitHub​

    • Trello

    • Itch page

  • Gameplay design

  • Programming

    • Player controlled interactables​

    • NPC management

    • Art implementation

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Recognition:

Ranked #7 in the cozy category, from a total of 380 games.

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Tools / Languages Used:

Unity, C#, Visual Studio, GitHub

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Design Process:

A few months before the jam, while riding the bus back from school, I jotted down the first prototype ideas for this game. A simple relaxing game about driving a tram and maybe meeting interesting characters along the way. When I heard of this jam I knew that idea would be perfect. I asked a few friends if they would be interested in creating it with me and we got started brainstorming.

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I created a Trello board to organize tasks and we set up meetings every other day to keep on track during the course of the two week jam. I started with prototyping the interactable controls, and once they felt nice I started to give them function and hooked them up to systems my team mates had worked on. From there I moved onto NPC management. Picking up and dropping off NPCs and connecting it to the dialogue system another teammate had finished.

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Once all the game systems were in place and finished. I made some last polish touches, created some promotional images, and uploaded it to itch.

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Overall this jam went quite smoothly and turned out well. I had worked with my team members before on Cursed Crops and various other projects. So we were all well acquainted to working as a team.

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