Head Down Tribe

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  • Genre: game
  • Year: 2016
  • Duration: 3 days
  • Team: 4

Head down Tribe is the outcome of four people working 72 hours, the link below will be updated when the game is available online. We even made second place at the radiusfestival with this game, yay!

Vienna GameJam

It is a 2D singleplayer game, where the player has to save smombies (smartphone zombies) from running into deadly situations, because they are unaware of their surroundings while staring down at their phones. Goal of the game is to save as much smombies as possible, by placing disruptive signal posts on the ground. These posts temporarily disable their phones and make the smombies smart again for a short period of time.

At the time of the jam pokemon go was a thing, so our character design is a little bit inspired by pikachu fans. Also the environment itself is taken directly from the nearby 'Maria-Theresien-Platz':

Development

My part was rigging & animating the characters, creating the cars & dredger and also the destroyable barriers: