Tiny trek

Brought to you by four people with ZERO game design/development experience.

meet ziggy

Idle

Walk

Jump

Envisioned by Ai

1.0 generated by DALL-E 3

Named by ChatGPT

Ziggy’s story

Game Introduction

Ziggy must beat 10 platformer style traverse levels and 10 mini-games to reach the summit.

Ziggy completes a traverse.

Ziggy is tired.

Ziggy completes a mini game.

Ziggy is rewarded with a salt lick.

His energy is replenished.

game

MECHANICS

HOW TO PLAY

To move right, hit the right arrow key.

To move left, hit the left arrow key.

To jump hit the space bar.

To drop, hit the down arrow key.

THe trek

Ideation

Paper prototype

Many YouTube

tutorials later...

Trek v1

Playtesting feedback

incorporated...

Trek v4 (Minimum Viable Product 1/2)

MIni game: Ancient

trees

(Minimum Viable Product 2/2)

Click the numbers to reveal the hints/answer

RIDDLE

HINT?

ANSWER

EASY

HARD

I can fly without wings.

I can cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows. What am I?

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have body, but come alive with the wind. What am I?

1

1

2

2

3

3

Click the faces to reveal Ziggy’s outcome

DID YOU WIN?

MOVE ON TO NEXT TREK

DID YOU LOSE?

YOU MUST

TRY AGAIN

OUr process

the idea

Came up with stupid games

Learned there are “no stupid ideas”

Brainstormed ideas without pressure

No code/low code platforms

the prototype

Paper

Code based

Asset generation

Utilized AI tools: DALLE-3 and Stable Diffusion

Backgrounds

Platforms

Decorations

Iteration

MINI GAMES

Feedback

“Ziggy’s death joke is too offensive for a kid’s game”

Update

Joke is now less blunt

“The riddles are too difficult”

Hints added

“The coffin riddle is too well known”

“I don’t want to lose progress if I lose the mini game”

Changed the riddle

Mini games will have

unlimited re-tries

TRAVERSE

Feedback

“Jumps too high or camera is falling in too quickly”

Update

Camera scope

expanded

“Make sure the terrain

is challenging”

“Add an extra

challenge, think

snakes and ladders”

Incorporated many

platform styles

Incorporated fake

platforms

“Colors drown

Ziggy out”

Color corrected

game assets

“The directions Ziggy must go are unclear”

Added arrows

Animation

Program: Procreate

Idle

Walking

Jumping

Future Directions

Minigames

ChatGPT

Rescue Mission

Star Navigation

Birdsong Mimicry

Rock Balancing

Crystal Cave Maze

Predator Dash

Powerups