Letters

Safe In Our World Mental Health Game Dev Champions 2024 Game Jam

Game Jam link: https://itch.io/jam/mental-health-game-dev-champions-2024

While participating in Epic Games' Project Titan during Spring 2024, I worked alongside a few talented artists and developers. We wanted to keep the ball rolling after Titan and decided to join a game jam together.

We found the Safe In Our World Mental Health Game Dev Champions 2024 game jam (which had started during the last week of Project Titan). We took the two weeks after Titan as a break, and then began working on our game, Letters, during the first week of July 2024. The jam lasted until the last day of October 2024, making our development time around a total of four months.

I acted as a programmer and technical artist during the jam, with most of my time spent creating and implementing several data-driven systems, such as the Quest system and the NPC Character data system. I primarily used data assets and tried to make everything as artist-friendly as I could, for our artists and game designers to implement the quests and characters.

I learned a ton during this jam, and had many successes and struggles. While the project had it's share of ups and downs, it all came together in the end, and I am extremely proud of what my team and I managed to create in just a few short months. I look forward to working with them again on a project in the near future.

We are currently in the final 3 days of polish before the jam ends. I will add the link to our Itch.io page after October 31, once we make our final submission.