Protect the Meeper

Protect the Meeper is a frenetically-paced VR game where players keep The Meeper, a soft and squeaky alien war machine, safe from a swarm of enemy robots. It was built for Schell Games Jam Week 2017.

What's the Meeper?

Project Overview

Game Details

- Game built for: Schell Games Jam Week

- Genre: Full-body tower object defense

- Platform: Oculus Rift + Vive

- Game Engine: Unity

- My roles: Project Director · Game designer · Programmer

Logistics Breakdown

- Year: 2016

- Project Duration: 5 days

- Team size: 8

Russ Ball and Ken Hilf - Engineers
Adam Whalen and Greg Mirles - Environment + prop artists
Dan Lin - Character artist
Abby Ince - Rigger
Doyle Daigle II - UI Artist

Gameplay

Unfortunately for you, the Meeper is a weapon of mass destruction.

Your weapons alone won't be enough. Weave the Meeper through swarms of killer drones until you can take them all out.

You work in an intergalactic warehouse. In one of the packages you find a Meeper. It squeaks sadly at you whenever you're not holding it.

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Process

My Contributions

Design I was responsible for:
- High level game pitch
- First pass of the system design and implementation (grabbing + interaction, enemy behavior + wave spawning, weapon design + behavior, etc.)
- Content implementation + iteration (weapons, difficulty levels, etc.)
- Directed team of 7 people in finishing + polishing the rest of the prototype over the course of Jam Week
- Early explanations of how the systems worked for the team to use during production

Protect the Meeper - Flyswatter work in progress

Going into detail on how enemies spawn

More detail on how the waves system would work

Defining the Meeper for the team

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