In Carni-ball, you take control of one of a selection of spirits in the underworld, and use your possession powers to beat the others (your friends) in games of Carni-ball.
This game was made for the Student Game Developer Alliance‘s 2022 Summer Game Jam, and I worked on the game design and narrative design.
The game was developed in one week, using the two themes ‘Game Over Is Not The End’ and ‘Party Games’. We settled on this multi-player sports game, where getting “out” allows players to interact with the game in a different way.
As a team, we settled on making this horror-themed, and it was then down to me to design a reason and a world around this “second life” mechanic. I ended up designing a spirit olympics in the underworld, named the characters the artist drew and created backstories for them, and finally came up with the name ‘Carni-Ball’. All copy inside the game and in the Itch description was also written by me.
While not the most complex game in the world, it was a lot of fun to design a simple story around a mechanic, and good to briefly work with a team again!
You can play the game on my team mate’s itch.io page here: