This year’s theme for game jam was “wave” a weird concept but defiantly something a lot of different and interesting games can come out of. For me it was my first game jam, and an exciting time. Together with 6 other class mates and close friends we spent the next 48 hours in the same room, coding, modelling, animating and doing sound design for our project. What we created was a fun FPS game that used the hand *wave* as the primary method of interacting with other NPC’s, along with the amazing game description “Just Wave” is an intense story driven FPS shooter experience, with a twist! You play as James Wave a member of WSS (Wave Super Soldiers) who’s tasked with brightening up the world! One wave at a time!”

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For me I worked on mainly the animations, level design and some UI elements/modelling. One of the main tasks was putting together a hand model that I could then rig and animate accordingly. This involved my waving my hand in front of my head many time, like some sort of idiot!

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Moving on from this, the team worked together on the models and finishing off some of the levels. At the same time as this I was working on the opening and closing cut scenes to the game, which would just open and wrap up the story with a little giggle.

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Altogether the game turned out great! Even though we didn’t win any of the categories *cough* did get 3 runners up *cough*. I had such a good experience working in a development team, many hours spend building, messing around online, finding out something is broken and doing it all again. 10000% looking forward to game jam 2018!

here is the game on the website! 

 

http://globalgamejam.org/2017/games/just-wave-0

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