Epic Mega Jam 2019 - Cat Stranded

Epic Mega Jam 2019

I am late on posting this considering it is now 2020. Us at Digital Daydream decided we wanted to do a game jam back in November and it just so happened to line up with the Epic Mega Jam. This was a nice challenge for us because we had little to no experience with the Unreal Engine. By the end of the jam it gave us an appreciation for what the engine can do. The most surprising aspect about my experience was that I wrote no code by the end of the weekend. Blueprints, Unreal’s visual scripting language, is a powerful tool and was able to handle any problem that we needed solved to get our game working.

Cat Stranded

Cat Stranded is a simple concept. Fly an astronaut in space and avoid space debris to make it to earth. I wanted to use the idea of the player free rotating in space and them needing to understand where the thruster would send them. This concept became more challenging when we decided to make the game two player. The dynamic of having two players tied together made the game much more entertaining. One players mistake, which was easily made, would be the downfall of the other.

The game uses just the keyboard. One player uses WASD and the other uses the arrow keys. We built the game for windows and I hope that you download and check it out!