Sheridan Game Jam
Academic
Sprint Week was a game jam that took place over five days from March 15-19, 2021. Teams were randomly assigned to one and other, and given a theme upon which to base their game. The theme of our game was the concept of secret keeping and hidden knowledge, and we devised a game about a spy master concocting potions and spells and tipping the balance of a particular kingdom a certain way depending on what house one wanted to thrive, and which they wanted to see suffer and fail.
Each “request” or opportunity brought to the spy master to deal with provides a different narrative outcome for dealing with it in any one of four different ways, and various choices lead to other orders being unlocked or otherwise changed down the road.
Our team worked together quite well, and it was a joy to be able to plan, organize, and produce the various narrative beats, how they would all interweave, how best to subvert player expectations regarding what each spell or potion would do while still feeling fair, and capturing their interest / sparking a desire to explore the narrative beats and play around with the provided systems.
