Bland Eric
Bland Eric is a 2D platformer game. The player takes control of a sentient piece of tofu trying to escape a factory in which it was created.
The Goal
This project had a group of designers create a game while recreating mechanics from other already published games. The team I was a part of wanted to create a platformer based mainly off of Super Meat Boy. The team wanted the game to be hard and difficult to play.
Branching Out
The first month of the project forced the team to only use one reference game to create the main mechanics of the game. The following months allowed designers to used multiple different games as references to recreate mechanics. One of the heavily referenced games was Super Mario 3D World because of the number of different platforming mechanics the game contained.
The Art
The final month of the project allowed the designers to work with artists. The team did not really have a sense of direction for the game art going into the final month. The team just knew what assets needed to be textured. We let the artists really try what they wanted to do with the art for the game.
