Misery Wants To Die

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"Misery Wants To Die" is a game developed by a team of four people for

a GAMEHIGHED Jam 2021.

The goal was to make a game within a 48 hours on the topic "You Only Live Once". I, for the first time in my life, worked as an illustrator and animator of a the whole game. In the end our game received the best rating in "#Visuals" category.

We also have the 2nd place in "#Theme", the 3rd place in "#Music and Sounds" and

the 7th place in "#Overall impression" category.

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Due to the lack of time we decided to add illustrations of her death instead of animating it. Illustrations were sketched in an hour before deadline and then finished for the first update.

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Concepts were made during the first hour after the gamejam started.

The very first sketches of Misery

My goal was to make a visually interesting game with a colourful neons in the background. Although I had to draw everything very quickly, we are all quite satisfied with how it turned out.

The overall look was complemented by colourful lights. Those were added in Unreal by our programmer Josef Kopinec.

screenshot from the first version of the game

In addition to the graphics and animation in game I also animated scenes for our trailer which had to be done the day after the game was submitted.

The trailer was edited by Miloslav Burda, who also made a soundtrack for our game and who was our moral support during the last few very stressful minutes.