Under: indie ant adventure game
Under is an ant puzzle-adventure game: play solo or co-op, and use your powers wisely to bring your offspring back to your queen! Available on PC, Mac and Linux.
It is the first game of Kugle Corp, made while we were still students. It started as a Global Game Jam 2017 project; the result was fun and intuitive, so I decided to continue the adventure for a year.
What I did
Project lead & programmer · team of 5- Led the team that formed around the project: a 2D graphic designer, a 3D artist / level designer, a level designer and a game designer
- Programmed the game in Unity & C#: 3C, micro and macro gameplay
- Built a co-op campaign and a versus mode
- Took a Global Game Jam 2017 prototype and kept developing it for a year
- Integrated Wwise audio, and Unity Analytics with heatmaps to tune the levels
The game
The core goal of the game is simple: you are an ant, and you must bring the lost eggs back to the queen. The story is told through cinematics:
"In a post-apocalyptic world, humans are gone. More resistant and stronger, ants now reign over the world. But the queens can no longer lay eggs, so they invented a cloning machine that delivers eggs to every anthill on the planet through portals.
You are a young ant working in the cloning center. It is your first day when, too curious, you change the portals' spawn settings. Big mistake! Eggs are now sent to the wrong places. You are forced to travel to each anthill to repair your mistake. Fortunately, you are not helpless in the face of danger: you are provided with the equipment needed to pass the trials ahead."
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