Whiskers of the Heart

Whiskers of the Heart is a story-driven local coop 2D platformer, made by my team in 6 days during the gamejam organized by TheXPlace x Unity (Summer Game Jam 2024).  Theme was TRAVEL! It explores the story of Simba and Bastet, 2 cats that met by fate and started a journey to the Ancient City of Cats. While traveling, they encounter a dark secret regarding one of their local deities, The Goddess of Death.

Bastet is a kitten, fast as the wind but who cannot jump very high. Simba being older can jump high, but is comparatively slower. By having asymmetrical gameplay the two players have to take the best path and jump over threats to help each others to move forward on their journey!

-= Why is there two versions? =-

We had some issues during the jam, so I was not satisfied with the result. While it's the concept for a jam, I wanted to provide a version in my portfolio that better reflects my sensibility for level design and gamefeel! I limited my extra time to 1 week, with a specific list of modifications:

• Fixing traps
• Fixing controllers/controls
• Fixing level design to highlight differences between characters and cooperation
• Fixing narrations and final cutscene
• Code and project cleanup

-= Credits =-

Florian "Laywelin" Baheux (he/him) - Programmer

Danny Bui (he/him) - Programmer

Laine Fleszar (she/they) - Audio Designer

Mirunal-Loana Stanescu (she/her) - Producer, Game Designer, Voicing

Eric Takahashi (he/him) - Character Artist (3D logo and splash screen is by him!)

Melody Yeo (she/her) - Music composer

All credits for external assets used can be found in the credit section in-game!

-= Rights =-

Only for non-commercial use.