The Judge

You take control of a judge who has recently died and stays in purgatory. Death is having a hard time deciding where to put you, heaven or hell, so he has come up with a solution: he will give you his job, for 5 days. Let's see how well can you perform at this job, and where you will end up at!

FINAL BUILD

Welcome back to our game! Although we wish we could work even more on the game to make it even better to play, the time has come! Our characters don't T-Pose anymore, we have more characters, and a mechanic for every item that appears on the desk. 

As a quick mention, as a team, we decided to make the game more of an amazing 5-minute experience, than a mediocre long-time experience. This is because we realized we are going a bit too far with the game, and rather play the safe 'quality over quantity' card.

Here we present most of the changes in the game:

Cinematic cameras - as we decided to go with the static camera, the game looked a bit boring to be without any changes on the screen. Thus, we decided to put focus on making the camera move around the scene. We tried our best to make it as least likely to cause a headache as possible.

We also made the statements more automatic to give a more cinematic experience. The player has the option to skip one dialogue or all of them. 

New telephone mechanic - we turned the phone into a call-a-friend mechanic, where the player can call Death to get a hint on the current soul. This is limited to only three times during the whole day, to make sure the game is not too easy. We tried our best to make the hints helpful, but also not too helpful.

Consequences at the end of the day  - once the day is finished, the player will get a call from death on what happened to the souls that the player put in heaven or hell. Considering we have 2 souls a day, for 5 days, and each soul has 2 outcomes - this gives us 20 different outcomes :) We are thinking that this increased the replayability the most from all our changes.

Interacting with every object  - every object on the desk is currently interactable, however, these might be still adjusted. The player could previously only interact with the book and the phone, while now they can also interact with the fish, pens, plants and statues. These are less impactful on the game but we thought it is funny to have at least small interactions there. 

Colourblind settings - after the previous meeting we actually started to think about how we can improve the accessibility of our game, and the first thing we came up with is the colourblind settings. This is found in options, although the only option we have here is to set the colour of the text. We wanted to improve that, but we run out of time.

Five endings - we finally came up with the ways to end up the game (took us a while lol) and we have five different endings based on the player's performance.

TEAM

Programmers - WIKTOR ZBOROWSKI, GEORGI VICHEV
Designers - EUAN BRADSHAW
Artists - KATIE ROSS, REECE CLARK, DANIEL SIMPSON, KIRSTEN LAIRD, LETH MCKAY, NIAMH MCALLISTER, ZOE VON RUNKEL, KYLE FORBES