This year I took part in the global game jam with a team of developers I will be working with on a project with for university. The theme for this years jam was “Lost and Found”, after a brief brainstorming session we came up with a few ideas. The one we decided to continue work on was “A lost sock tries to find it’s way back to the laundry basket”. Given this subject I started by creating a basic drawing of a cartoon sock in order to put some character into our game.
Based on larger warmer socks in order to give it more substance this design was used as the main idea behind our player model. We progressed rapidly into the 3D phase as we only had a limited time to produce the game itself, We began work on several levels for the game itself and we finished with three in total. The levels were based on a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and a bedroom. I was responsible for creating the bedroom scene which I did in Blender. This made it simple to export as an FBX so it could be imported right into the game scene in Unity.
The bedroom started out as a simple enough layout. Given the time restrictions some of the assets were more finished than others. After I had finished putting this template together I needed to create a viable route for our player to reach the set of drawers next to the bed. In order to do so I added a few more environment assets and needed to reposition some of the old ones.
Having done this our player now had access to the drawer by following a route climbing up the bookcase, onto the desk and over the shelves. After it was exported there were a few errors with the face normals that were causing some of the assets to render incorrectly in Unity but after working with the rest of the team I was able to fix those issues.
After this I was tasked to produce some basic paintings to go on the living room wall in another game scene. I was given the UV layouts and was asked to paint something to fit with the aesthetic of the living room. These are the final versions of those paintings.
These paintings are featured in the background of the living room level in the released version of the game which can be found though the following link.
Global Game Jam Website: https://globalgamejam.org/2021/games/socks-r-us-working-title-6