Icebreaker

Check Out Icebreaker

Battle for control of the pond in this frigid four player party game! Swing your hammer and smash the ice below your opponents, but be careful not to mess up the structural integrity of the ice and send yourself crashing into the depths.

I created this game over the course of a week along with my friends @Theren_Drythorn and @TheTwoFingeredGlove, as part of a game jam run by the WPI branch of the International Game Developers Association. The game jam was themed around minigames like in Mario Party, with each team creating a minigame to be combined into a larger party game.

Icebreaker's gameplay is a cross between Minecraft Spleef and the children's game Don't Break the Ice. Players wield a comically large hammer and use it to break the ice tiles beneath their opponents. Tiles are considered supported if both tiles on either axis are stable, meaning that strategic plays can destroy large sections of the board at once. Players can also use their hammers to squish each other, creating a temporary speed debuff. After 30 seconds, a sudden death mode begins, in which ice starts breaking on its own.

This game was a lot of fun to create, and I learned a lot while making it. College has been busy so far but has also definitely stimulated my creativity, so I'm hoping to have more projects like this soon.