Dream of the Blue Pangolin GMTK Jam 2024

Dream of the Blue Pangolin

Game Play Video

Maybe you’re a skittering six-legged drone, crowdsourcing all the live-long day down at the ant farm.  Or maybe there’s a wider world.  Maybe you’re all just passengers on the back of a colossal ant-eater.   Maybe YOU are the ant-eater, caught in a THEM!-style battle against giant irradiated insects.  Or maybe . . . 

Maybe it’s all a dream. 

Thank You

Thank you to everyone involved in this game jam!  For the organizers, the reviewers, discord moderators, and everyone that I don't even know to name.  This is a massive undertaking and you all do a wonderful job putting this together.  Thank you for your effort to provide an opportunity for this community to gather around new challenges.

But most of all thank you to everyone in this community!  The thoughtful feedback and helpful spirit that dominates the indie world is inspiring to participate in.  I'm not sure I'll ever find a way to truly give back anything worthy but I'm sure gonna try!

Credits

Art

2D Assets: Husband Guy

Art nerd who created all the 2D assets for this game.

3D Assets: Synty Studios 

Check them out they have an awesome selection of assets that can be a base to build on or help out the developer without 3D art skills, like me! 

Synty Website

Sound

Music: "The Charmer's Call"  

Artist: Hanu Dixit

StudioISH

This craziness started in 2019.  At the time, my only development experience was a few fancy macros in Excel and Word.  Then came Stardew Valley.  And something clicked.  And I got the crazy idea that maybe I could make a video game. 

It has been an astonishingly fruitful grind.  The years of fun and hard work opened doors to an entirely new life.   Five jams later, I make my living as a super swanky Solutions Architect.  I’ll be building fun stuff until I’m ninety-something and my hands stop working.  Although . . . maybe by then it won’t be done by hand!

My husband is a writer, musician and visual artist.  Gear addict?  Check.  Opinions about everything?  You know it.  But he also created all the art assets, curated the perfect soundtrack, and gets me McDonald’s when I’m stressed.  So . . . still kind of a keeper.