From October 27 to 29, 2017, I attended SP Jam 17 in Sao Paulo.
SP Jam is a game development marathon held annually in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Participants are challenged to build a themed game in 48 hours using any tools and media they choose. The theme is revealed at the opening ceremony.
In its 2017 edition, the SP Jam theme was “dimension”. Minor guide words were foot, signs, assymetrical and platypus.
Together with Henrique Alves de Andrade as our 3D and 2D artist and Douglas Polo as our animator and sound designer, I worked as programmer to develop the game “Dimensões Etéreas” (Ethereal Dimensions).
Dimensões Etéreas is a mobile puzzle game. You play as an ethereal being capable of traveling across dimensions, trying to bring its friends back after they became lost in alternate material realms.
However, when you travel to material dimension, your friends can’t see anything but your footprints. Your little friend will follow only little footprints, while your big friend will follow only big footprints. But you can’t stay as long as you want in the material dimension, otherwise you get lost just like them. Therefore, you can’t leave infinite footprints before shifting back to the ethereal dimension.
Gameplay revolves around: walk, change to material dimension, walk to leave footprints, wake your friends, wait for them to follow footprints, repeat until you get both to the rift.
Levels get more and more difficult, as buttons, breakable walls, lights and more make guiding them to the rift a challenging task.
The project is hosted on itch.io and submitted to SP Jam 2017 itch.io page. You can download it for Android devices and test it freely. If you do so, please share your thoughts with me!
