JILL & EDISON: THE PILL AND THE MEDICINE
Global Game Jam
January 31 to February 2, 2020
GAME OVERVIEW
Jill & Edison: The Pill and The Medicine is an asymmetrical co-op game made for Global Game Jam 2020. The game jam theme for 2020 was repair. In the game, two players using Xbox One controllers would work together to repair the tearing walls of a stomach. One player took command of Edison the Medicine, whose job it was to repair the stomach walls. The other player played as Jill the Pill, who had to protect Edison from pesky germs that would try to stun him and prevent him from doing his job.
MY ROLE: GAMEPLAY PROGRAMMER
As a Gameplay Programmer, I worked with the other gameplay programmer to implement the germs, main game loop, and primary interactions for the players. The primary interaction for the player controller Edison was to repair the stomach walls. The primary interaction for the player controller Jill was to punch the germs before they could get to Edison. We utilized a Unity navmesh to make the germs seek out Edison. We utilized pooling to ensure that the amount of memory used by the germs was pre-determined at the start of the game.
DOWNLOADS AND LINKS
All code for this project was developed using peer programming between one other gameplay programmer and me. For that reason, I played a hand in developing every piece of code for this game. That code can be viewed on GitHub here!
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Download the playable game here! The game requires two Xbox One controllers to be connected to the PC.