Melting Hack - Game Jam vol.1 Game Submission - Ham Jam

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Story

Where is home? You are a hamster with an overactive imagination and you’ve been exploring for who knows how many days (hamster time). You’ll need to use your wits in order to survive and make it back home. Along the way you’ll encounter various animals who can help or hinder your adventure.

Characters

Hamster:

• The main character, who has lost their way home. An expert explorer with short-memory and an impulsive personality. Try not to let intrusive thoughts win.
• Likes
  • All things food
  • Storing food in cheeks

Crow

• A kleptomaniac crow that enjoys telling the occasional lie. It’s the spice of life. Don’t believe everything they say but don’t be afraid to play along.
• Likes
  • All things shiny
  • Good liars

Cat

• The ruler of the garage and overseer of all things metallic. Looks down upon everyone from above, especially rodents. However, it secretly loves them. A tsundere.
• Likes
  • Soft things
  • Not rodents(does)

Team: Stray Cheese

• Shunhades - Art, QA
• mac_knows_best - Narrative
• OpalJellyfish - Programming 
• Dekuran - Programming

Platform

• PC

Tools Used

• Unity
• Photoshop CS6
• Stable Diffusion
• Suno
• Gimp
• Perchance.org