Turtle Quest

Overview

Turtle Quest is a 3D mobile game where you play as a turtle in an interactive underwater environment that has become filled with trash. Your goal is to recycle the cans and plastic boxes to clean up your ocean home (collect and take it to blue recycle bins on ocean floor), while eating jellyfish for speed boosts and avoiding the shark trying to eat you!

This game was made over the course of 2 days for the Global Game Jam 2019. Here is our entry page: TurtleQuest

Theme and Diversifiers

The theme this year was "What does home mean to you" and one of the diversifiers we did was "Protect the Oceans". We thought those two kind of went hand in hand. It's sad what is happening to this planet so we thought it would be nice to help raise awareness about the problems of climate change and pollution, even in this small way. Though I don't live there, I love visiting Hawaii and I consider it one of my homes because whenever I go there I have such a fun time and really feel a closer connection with nature.

The other diversifier we did was "Assetless". So this game was made without using any traditional art assets. The terrain, coral, rocks, and kelp were procedurally generated, the textures were done with shader programs, and everything else was built with Unity primitive shapes.