My team and I won the 2024 UCSC Silicon Valley Campus Hackathon this February! It was an extremely fun challenge where we had to tackle the subject of "connection" and getting to know others in meaningful ways. What better way to do that than with a dating sim!? My contributions consisted of character art, background art, and help with the narrative design :)
Background Art for different areas of game.
Above is the Character Axolola and the real life creature the Axolotl that she is based off of. Axolola embodies empathy in the game.
Above is the character Blobert with his real life counter part the Blobfish. Blobert embodies vulnerability in the game.
My personal favorite, Sluglie! They are based off of this amazing real life sea slug. Sluglie represents the trait of self love in the game.
Above is the player character Rocky! They start of as just a normal googly eyed rock pet, who happens to be dropped into an aquarium. By the magical power of dating sims Rocky is transformed into the kawaii rock you see on the right :)
Through the use of Figma it was very easy for us to be able to visualize and organize how we wanted our branched paths to work. We were able to reference this while putting the scenes into Unity.