MOOving Up

Chloe Bentley, University of Michigan, Fall 2023

Project Description

In MOOving Up, the player acts as a deployed UFO pilot sent to Earth by a mysterious entity known as Madame Bessy. Exploring a series of increasingly hazardous regions, the pilot is tasked with retrieving Madame Bessy's fashion items and collect as many cows as possible to bring back to their home planet.

Game and Contribution Details

• Designed, programmed, and playtested a cow/space themed action-adventure game over a six week period
• Completed in a small team of five students, including Alyvia Osbourne, Mathurin Gagnon, Megan Chow, and Surya Sultes
• Served as project manager, keeping organized meeting notes, managing the dev blog pages, and creating/distributing JIRA tasks each week
• Was responsible for creating the level/ save system, the in-game store, the UI, and numerous particle systems and animations
• Drew half of the sprites, with Alyvia Osbourne drawing the other half, in order to fulfill our goal of having all original artwork
• Won third place in the end-of-semester joint showcase with Eastern Michigan University's Game Dev Program

Technologies Used: Unity, C#, Jira, Git

• Itch
• Game Jolt
• Dev Blog