Game Jam: GearShift

About This Project

This Game Jam involved the creation of a Metroidvania game, centered around the theme of gears, within a sole month timeframe. To make the game stand-out, our team, which initially consisted of four members plus myself, we proposed the idea of the playable character being able to switch between two forms: a muscular clockwork soldier, for phsyical strength and abilities, i.e. grapple hook and smashing through rocks, and a clockwork balerina, for elegant traversal abilities, i.e. double and wall jumping.

Unfortunately, due to the complexity of the game's features and with little progress made in the first few weeks, most of the team disbanded, leaving only myself as the sole programmer and Scrumblob as both sound designer and 2d artist. Despite being only two of us, we were able to get a significant amount of the game done. Though our game did not rank high in the jam, both of us were proud of our progress.