elastic sword
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Skills Practiced: C#, Digital Music Production
Tools Used: Otter2D, FL Studio
Project Duration: 2 Weeks
Project Focus: Fun / Jam
Elastic Sword is one of my larger jam games, featuring an entire custom soundtrack and multiple endings. It was written in spare time over the course of 2 weeks for Rainbow Jam 16, a gamejam hosted by members of the LGBT community and centered around the theme of personal identity. The main gameplay revolves around a central mechanic, the eponymous Elastic Sword; the player must move their character to swing the sword around themselves as the blade of the sword wobbles, stretches, and bounces around in response.
On a technical level, I spent a large portion of the development time of this game writing a lightweight cutscene script parser, so that I could rapidly iterate on the game’s interstitial scenes without having to hardcode character text and positions. This saved a ton of time, and let me focus on a variety of polishing touches that make this game one of my favourite pieces.
The electic and bizarre soundtrack was also my first attempt at making a full soundtrack to a small game; I am by no means a competent composer, but I am particularly proud of the way the music matches the surreal reality of the game, particularly my track about how to fry eggs.