Greedy Roots
Greedy Roots is a top-down 2.5D game created during Global Game Jam 2023. The theme is Root.
"Greedy Roots" plunges you into a world where trees turn demonic from harmful fertilizers. As a hero coconut tree, your mission is to save nature by defeating these nutrient-greedy monsters.
- ROLE
- Lead Gameplay Designer & Producer
- TEAM SIZE
- Game Jam team
- ENGINE
- Unity · PC
- DURATION
- GGJ 2023 (72 hours)
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What I Learned From This Project?
Main Contributions
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Project Management： Served as the team's Project Manager, utilizing online document tools to assign tasks to members, monitor project scope, and successfully ensure the completion of game development, trailer production, and project submission within a tight timeframe of three days.
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Game Design： Engaged in brainstorming sessions with team members to interpret the theme and design the core gameplay, culminating in the creation of the game's rules and mechanics.
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Sound Design： Crafted and produced seven types of interactive sound effects for the game, enhancing the auditory experience and immersion for players.
Key Features
Background Story
In the world of “Greedy Roots,” trees turn into demons after being injected with greed-laced fertilizer. As an untainted coconut tree hero, your mission is to defeat those “greedy trees” and save nature.
Gameplay
Absorb Nutrients
Players absorb nutrients and increase their height by rooting into the soil, during which they cannot move.
- Collecting sunlight will increase the player’s maximum health.
Player Movement
Players move by pulling out roots, which consumes nutrients and reduces their height. When all nutrients are depleted (losing all height), the player dies and the game ends.
- By controlling their height, players can pass through obstacles that enemies are unable to cross.
Attack Enemies
By rooting near enemies, you can absorb their nutrients and attack them. You can only attack enemies with fewer nutrients than you.
However, if you root near enemies with more nutrients, you will be attacked and continuously lose health.
- To defeat an enemy, you need to grow taller than it to suck away its nutrients — otherwise your nutrients will be drained instead.
Strategic Play
You can strategically control your height to pass through terrain that enemies cannot, forcing them to move and thereby depleting their nutrients.
Development Process
During the 72-hour Game Jam, I utilized online documentation tools to manage project progress, assign tasks to team members, and collaboratively create planning documents and engineering standards documents — ensuring game development, trailer production, and project submission were all completed within the tight timeframe.
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