Return to Monke

A Global Game Jam project, this time in 2023

Joined the event by Game Dev London with a few friends from Germany and me, a Lithuanian living in Finland. Fully international team, we didn't have any experience with Unity, but tried to challenge ourselves anyway.

The theme: Roots.

We decided to have fun with the concept and used a meme as an inspiration - "return to monke". Essentially, "Tired of evolution? Embrace devolution." It sounds worse than it is, however, when a modern person decides they are tired of the difficult and hectic modern world, isn't it a great solution to go back into the forest and embrace the simplicity of the caveman, then turned into a cute little monkey. No responsibilities or worries.

The level is simple, the player has to find the right way to find the upgrades to two devolutions, each time the pace and music, as well as sound effects change.

This time I was in charge of the sound effects and the caveman and monkey characters and their animations.

There are still some bugs as we had a short time to finish it. It was a quite challenging process, but it was fun being a part of it.