Flopsy Ana Windows game

Hey world! We've got a project for you and it's all about family connections, finding yourself and... glass!

The Team:

Game Designer & Project Manager: ririkito

Game Artist: MigCoe

Game Programmer: mangocrab

Having previously worked together on smaller projects, we've come together to make a game for our 2D Game Project class. When first approaching this project, we came up with some ideas but at last we landed on a topic much closer and familiar to us: glass art which is prominent in the neighboring city of where we are located, Marinha Grande.

The Story:

In this game, we play as a teenage girl called Beatriz who gets her first job at her grandfather's glass art workshop with the goal to earn enough money to buy a gift for her mom before Easter vacation ends. We follow the relationship between a grandfather eager to share and keep his craft alive and a granddaughter unsure of her passion and future.

The Gameplay:

Once the idea was down, we embarked into deciding what the gameplay mechanics would be like. Considering we're going mostly for a younger female target audience who could relate the most to Beatriz's struggles, we thought of something more casual and along the lines of games like the Papa Louie's franchise and Overcooked. The player will receive orders of glass art to make during work hours shown in a timer similar to that of Recettear or Stardew Valley. After work's over, there will be dialogue sections between Beatriz and her grandfather to develop the narrative and give the player the feeling of a break between playing. The glass art crafting is better explained in the image bellow:

All of the main gameplay would take place in the grandfather's workshop which we've assigned this 3 rooms linear layout bellow:

Before this article ends, I'd like to leave you guys with a video we took at Marinha Grande's museum of glass. In it is a very kind sir, who's been working on this craft since he was 14 years old, making us a piece of glass art while helping with our research by explaining his process and life experience.