HeartCore (2013, Global Gamejam)

HeartCore was our entry for Global Game Jam 2013, the theme was “heartbeat”. In this couch co-op game, two players share one heart together.

Without the heart, a player slowly bleeds out, while the player with the heart regenerates health. The players can toss the heart towards one another, but have to be careful not to drop it into the abyss. The goal of the game is to reach as many islands as you can together.

Game Design

Aside from drafting the initial design, I also created different enemy types, tweaked values of both the island generation and the enemy stats, and worked closely together with the programmers.

The trailer was made while we were still working on the implementation of the graphics (in true GGJ fashion!) so please keep that in mind, you can check it out here: