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!
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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. ​
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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.
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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
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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.
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Awards and Recognition
Times of Truth of Justice won the IGDC BYOG which is India Game Developer Conferernces' yearly game jam