Media: Video Game

Genres: Minigames, Party game, Psychological Horror 

Status: Cancelled

Start date: N/A

Release date: N/A

Platform: Windows

Engine: Gdevelop5

Have you got a green thumb? If you do, you'll love spore boy. Water and feed a little seed, watching it grow through its life cycle all the way to a massive eldritch being with a thirst for human blood! Do you have what it takes to look after this little shop of horrors inspired leafy mutant? Or will it eat you aswell...

Spore boy was a game concept designed for a Green game jam, the theme of which was about regreening. Regreening is the process of recovering and renovating once barren or deforested land, into a healthy ecosystem by planting plants and trees. Abstracting from this, we went with the idea of, what if regreening went too far and started trying to "restore" humanity? Inspired by games like Can your pet, a pet simulator with a psychological twist, in which you raise a chicken, and then watch it be murdered for dinner. In Spore boy you raise a seed through its life span by playing various minigames, these games would become more and more twisted until eventually it sprawls out of control and starts harvesting people for blood!

Working on this game I worked on the code and systems, doing so in GDevelop5 because of its easy to use drag and drop interface. Not much came of Spore Boy as the game jam took place in the middle of our uni week, so we only made a very basic prototype, but it was a very fun experince regardless.