DustBuster

As the legendary DustBuster, it's your job to keep the pesky dust off the shelf.

Summary

DustBuster is a 2D arcade shooter action game made for the Trijam game jam. In it, you play a character protecting a shelf from gathering dust using your vacuum weapon. Use the arrow keys/WASD to move left and right, and spacebar to shoot a gust of wind at the dust particles heading your way.

Details

This game was made in 3 hours using the Unity engine by one bloke. It was a big challenge to finish a game in such a short timespan, but I'm happy I even managed to do that :)

There were definitely features I had to drop since I didn't have enough time, but thankfully I planned all of the game's tasks in 'tiers' of importance so I got a basic playable game done before handling optional stuff (Like sound effects, title screen, etc.)

One thing I found really surprising was that tasks requiring my strongest skills took longer than expected and tasks requiring my weakest skills were faster than expected. This may be a result of 'overthinking' things that you know a lot about.

I am really happy that all the assets, graphics and code were created by hand during the 3 hour period.