Brainhero Jump & Run was a bonus game for user of the Brainhero Therapy App. We were a team of two, me as artist (and storyteller and everything else ;)) and one developer.
Intro Comic
To introduce the user to the story I made a little comic.
Some user were nonverbal so first I tried to make a nonverbal comic without the usage of any text. But it turned out to be too complicated.
The World
To save time we made the decision to split the colliders into separate parts which could be put together randomly by using an algorithm.
tileset grasland
tileset dirt
tilset island
tileset tree
The background was layered in sky, mountains and bushes ect. to create a parallax effect.
This is the checkpoint, a little drone following Brainhero to save progress.
Brainhero - The Main Character
Here you can see how I designed the figure for movement. It´s different to the Brainhero Therapy App cause the character is actually running and not flying.
jump
run
map of body parts
movement arm
movement leg
Basic Enemy
I designed the basic enemies and their animation as simple as possible to save as much time as possible. They are mammal-like creatures of the planet.
The Final Opponent
For the boss fight I designed a creature I called "earthfish". It is a squid-like creature that lives mostly under the earth but needs oxygen to survive. It feeds from rotten meat and has toxic growths looking like mushrooms that serve as venus traps. If something organic touches one mushroom it dies. The killed body is going to be liquefied by the poison and will be absorbed by the tentacles hidden under the earth.
It was fun working on this project and I learned a bunch of new skills.
Check out my comic if you want to see more of my work.