Surely You Jest Titlecard

Surely You Jest Titlecard

William Tell in the throne room

William Tell in the throne room

Dodge the rotten food while balancing

Dodge the rotten food while balancing

Character Designs and UI assets (speech bubbles, custom pointer)

Character Designs and UI assets (speech bubbles, custom pointer)

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Game Premise

You are a court jester. Unfortunately you serve a mad tyrant king who hates happiness and finds immense joy in cruelty towards others. Surely You Jest sets you in a royal court where you must make the King and his Court laugh. As you battle tricky ragdoll physics, balancing acts, and impossible aiming you must complete tasks to please the audience or face execution by the King.

Team Members

  • Ashley Alicea (Game Design / Programming)
  • Sebastian Gutierrez (Audio)
  • Joshua Knapp (Game Design / Project Management / Writing)
  • Adam Rickert (Game Design / Art / Story)
  • Kevin Riley (Programming)

Surely You Jest

Global Game Jam 2024

Created for the Global Game Jam 2024, a 48-hour event to make games with the theme this year being: "Make Me Laugh". Surely You Jest is a QWOP-esque physics game where you must entertain a tyrant king by completing tasks with the most unruly of controls.

Art style is based on the 1960's Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons.

Team: Ashley Alicea (Game Design / Programming), Sebastian Gutierrez (Audio), Joshua Knapp (Game Design / Project Management / Writing), Adam Rickert (Game Design / Art / Story), Kevin Riley (Programming)

Date

2024

Role

Designer / Artist

Tools Used

Unity, Photoshop

Client

Self

Filed Under

Game Jam