Kirigami

cute little point & click game free to play on Itch.io

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Kirigami is a cute and quirky point-and-click adventure game. I designed and created it over 9 months as part of my FdA course. Although it is only roughly 15 minutes long, it has been really well received online with tonnes of positive feedback! It’s free to play so please give it a try if you’re interested! 

Play it Here

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I heard some rumours of a second less broken game. my rumours. That I just made. might be happening, who knows

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testing out a few styles for a possible second version of my game Kirigami . i really wanna try more of this and maybe make a whole city!

Inspired by Ian McQue’s sketches 

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just gonna put this here

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Kirigami is an adorable point and click adventure in which you play a cute little onesie-wearing cat who helps the quirky residents of a beautifully crafted paper doll’s house.

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Kirigami by Studio 694

A short puzzle adventure game with a sketchy hand drawn art style

Finally a link to the game!! Sorry it took so long, thank you to everyone whos followed this blog or taken an interest in my little game! I appreciate every bit of support and i cant tell you how happy i am at the attention it’s received 

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(this post is a course requirement)

this is all the code that IS NOT MINE. all of this has been designed and executed by Guvi Sangha and he gets full credit for the programming behind the entire Inventory (besides the bag opening) and the Player Turn FSM. This is the only part of my game that I had no input on, besides the audio which i’ll get to this week. 

as oppose the the old inventory, Guvi made this so the items can be places straight into the scene and use a Mouse Pick from the player. This was incredibly useful and meant i could paste the items straight in, with no additional code. 

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Ground floor Gifs! (probably my favourite floor but idk why)

my cute little game is now at the stage where its ready to release into the world. of course there are loads of details i’d love to add to the game, There’s little things that still bother me, but i would stil love to make the rooms completely cluttered with stuff. Like the livingroom for example, i would love that to be full of paintings, an old radio, carpets, etc. 

After the Beta presentations, i got some extremely positive feedback from industry professionals. They were all very interested in the style and all suggested completing this game to a polished, professional standard. it was soooooooo great to hear how much people liked the game, i really wasnt expecting that at all. This totally refreshed my motivation to make it prettier, but i won’t be able to do so before the final deadline. although thats a shame, i still have people who are interested in presenting it in events like EGX. 

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THIS IS THE WHOLE GAME. 

in an adorable neat spreadsheet. When i started this project, all these were black and i’ve been able to slowly work my way through them, one by one. 

This was one of the most valuable documents when producing this game. Not only did it double-up as a to do list of assets, but it meant i could appropriately plan my time. Having a visual representation of the assets was honestly essential for me. It also meant i could prioritise easily from what was essential, and what was just decorative. 

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the beginning and forming of the Pieces. i wanted a simple visual representation of the progression through the game, also it double’s up as a key or ending item. 

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After having some play testers play the game, i found there was nothing stopping players from completely walking off the map! i had suggestions to just put a collider or rock or something, but i thought i’d do something a little more interesting. (This comes with sound effects which makes it way better)

although its just an itween, set scale, and a quick particle effect, this would of taken me the best part of a day and a lot of help when i started this project. now, took me five minuets and looks pretty decent. 

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[contains spoilers] [and basically the whole game] putting up the original concept pages I did when starting this year. I wanted to make sure everything in the game linked into the rest of the story so this took a few weeks of planning before starting. 

 After having a few people test the game the whole way through, they all seem to be lead from one item to the next without getting stuck. This is exactly what I was looking for!! I tried to make all the puzzles with a fantasy feel, but still making fairly logical sense. E.g; cook makes soup, throws a bone on the floor while cooking, bone goes to the dog, dog runs off to bury it, showing the next puzzle etc. 

 (Rewriting this because tumblr swallowed my post)

when i started the design phase, the first few weeks were mostly jotting down a mish-mash of ideas that i liked. Some were characters, rooms, puzzles etc, but none of them related to each other. After this,I made sure to spend a few weeks planning the layout of the story. it was crucial that it all made sense and each part of the game linked into the next, while also leading the player around the house, but without letting them get lost/overwhelmed with rooms. 

The last two pages show the entire game, stage by stage. This was the first time i wrote out the plan and it hasn't changed much since then. The biggest difference in the design is the use of ‘Pieces’ which used to be 3 pieces collected gradually through the game butttt that meant another inventory thing, and i just didn't like the way it made the flow of the gameplay, so i changed it to once cutscene where you get individual pieces for each character. Also the Old Man doesn't do anything anymore :( 

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right so, I woke up this morning and updated (one) of my to-do lists, and this is all I have left for assets!!! It's so exciting it's almost done! I still really really really need a title for my game, and I'm dying for suggestions!! I'm looking for something kinda simple, here are some themes of the game to give an idea • dolls house • paper / sketch style • adventure / journey • helping people? • the goal is to get in the ominous door all ideas are welcome, even if u think they're dumb or anything I just need ideas 💕

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im finding it really difficult to chose a font style and whether or not to have speech bubbles? i like the style of just having text, but its kinda harder to see? what do you guys think?

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new rooms (the curtain hates me)

edit: it was a problem with the axis on the original model

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i realised i havnt done any shots of the whole house! this is how it’s looking now. put the main assets for the last room in yesterday (middle right) so it’s 90% programming from here... ew 

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So alpha deadline is next month and I've decided to finish the game completely rather than taking an (easier) early exit where the game could have roughly 8/10 rooms instead of al of them. And that would suck. so I'm going to stress myself out like crazy getting the extra work done but it'll be worth it 😏 Some important things that are still left • inventory WITH usable items • music / soundtrack • Writer/ Wolf's rooms • Writer/ Wolf animations • Main menu • name for the game!! (suggestions welcome) • kitchen scene animations • ending / storyline clean up Of course there's lots of things that need doing but they're mostly tidying up bad code and making little details work

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got the inventory working today!!!! i thought this was going to be the biggest problem in the game but it was actually fine!!

this is a really basic test to see how it all works together, really happy with it :D (the gross red crosses are placeholders btw)

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much progress today!! actually i did most of this about two weeks ago but it didnt work, turns out i was just supposed to click ‘Every Frame’ lmao