Alien’s Attack? Again! GMTK Game Jam 2023
Alien's Attack? Again! is a twist on the classic alien attack genre. Instead of destroying the city. the helpful alien is trying to rearrange the city to protect the citizens from the dual disasters striking the city!
I was the sole programmer on this project, and did the Narrator voice work.
Created as an entry for the GMTK Game Jam 2023.
Description
"Breaking news! A flying saucer has been spotted in the city! To make matters worse, the oceans have risen and volcano activity has increased! Wait, shouldn't the aliens attacking!? In a shocking reversal, they're re-organising our city to protect us!"
With the theme of 'Role Reversal', we wanted to explore this in a number of ways. Most obviously, instead of attacking the city, the UFO is here the save the city. But from a design point of view, we wanted to take the idea of a city management game, and flip it so that the city has already been built and the player instead is trying rearrange it whilst under time pressure. This also plays like a backwards Tetris, where you start with all the block shapes on the board and the speed is determined by how fast you can act.