The Story!

Howdy all,

Time Goobers Zudio's Sam here with another update.  After our weekly Wednesday meeting we've decided on a basic narrative for our game.

You play as codename 'The Janitor', a secret agent that specializes in cleaning up extra-ordinary scenarios -- aliens, teleportation, mind control, giant bugs, you name it.  One day The Janitor called in to clean up yet another biological experiment gone wrong in the basement of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. During the fighting he accidentally falls into a secret cavern below the labs, where he finds a cursed watch that causes him to begin looping through time as he tries to find his way out of the caverns.

We chose this story for two reasons.  First, we think that it is short and straightforward, which allows us to explain our premise to the player quickly and simply.  Second, it allows us to use a wide variety of enemies, power ups, etc. which makes life much easier for our artist and sound designer.  It also lets us use a generic underground tile set for our environment, and some fun underground noises for the backdrop, which we don't anticipate any difficulty in finding and/or making.  This week our artist Yoshi and sound director David will be working on getting some art together, which we hope to be able to show off later this week!