9 Feb 2020

Global Game Jam 2020: Tasty Camping

I participated again in Global Game Jam. I made plans with a friend that we would make a game with some of the same restrictions as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) had.

I programmed a simple map editor in Lua using the Love 2D framework before the jam so that we could then use it to make a game suitable to the theme.

The theme was Repair and the intro video had a lot of machines and footage of falling buildings being played backwards. But I had been waching the Yuru Camp (Laid back camp) anime recently and I wanted to to do something again that would have cute animals.

So I suggested we do a game where Animal Crossing meets Yuru Camp and pitched that with my friend. To my delight three more people were interested. And they had such pixel art skills that the game became really cute.

Actually the only problem was that there was more art and animations than I had time to add support for, but I finished the game on the following weekend and made this blog post.

I am so happy that I was able to make a game about cute animals and could just put the cuteness as the main priority.

Please enjoy Tasty Camping.


Download the game from google drive. It works on Windows natively and on Linux and OS X (Mac (Apple) ) too if you install Love 2D.

Edit 11.2.2020 Talking to Otter twice crashed the game. It has now been fixed in version 2 and I updated the download link.