Tanushree Bansal
Game Design Portfolio
Times of Truth and Justice
Turn-based, Experimental
PROJECT INFORMATION
General
Platform: Microsoft Excel
Genre: Turn-Based, Experimental
Role: Game Design
Software used: MS Excel
Project Type: Personal Project (Game Jam)
Year and Duration: October 2019
Team Size: 1
OVERVIEW
Goals
Make a kick-ass game for India's Biggest Game Jam
Description
Gameplay: The player plays as a vigilante looking at newspaper articles about crime in their area, choose a criminal to defeat in turn-based combat. However, manage your own stats: if you get too popular or injured you lose!
At the time of the game jam, I was working on a lot of simulations for my job at the time, I figured, I could probably make a whole game on excel, luckily IGDC Game jam was around the corner and I could use this opportunity to make this game.
The game design is simple turn-based combat with a few different enemies and basic attacks. Game still has some progression elements, for example, enemies get tougher the more you play. Overall, this game was a fun experiment to make. The intention was to make a stand-alone game which is feature complete and not an incomplete experience.
The trickiest part was getting the animations and sounds to work
GALLERY
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RESPONSIBILITIES AND ROLES
Key responsibilities
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Learn VBA! (Learnt how to use VBA and made this game in the 2 week duration of the jam)
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Figure out and implement a working combat system with some sense of progression and
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Implement animations and art! The biggest challenge here was how to use 'assets' with excel on a platform. Ended up colouring cells on excel like pixel art and 'spawning' them when required
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Begged my friends and co-workers to make silly voice lines to be used as sounds in this game
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Game balancing
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Scripting
EXPERIENCE
Learning opportunity
This was a really fun project, working with these constraints was very fulfilling, and overall really happy with how it turned out.
Since this project, I have simulated gameplay for 10+ games on excel as 'Paper Prototypes'
This project was key to really accelerating my game and economy simulation skills.
Awards and Recognition
Times of Truth of Justice won the IGDC BYOG which is India Game Developer Conferernces' yearly game jam