Breath (2024)

Personal Project - Team of 3

Game Description

The players spawn in a labyrinth covered in smog, with the goal to find and recover eggs hidden in the maze. In order to progress, the players must first inhale the good air around their nest, and use it to blow away the smog. Inhaling smog causes them to get dizzy for a short period of time.

It’s a race to find 4 eggs before your opponent! You can’t suck up your opponent’s air, but you can blow it away. And you can even steal their eggs if you’re quick enough!

Game was presented on a custom made arcade cabinet at a local art night

The Premise

This game was made over a month for a local art night. The theme of the art night was “life and death”. After musing over this theme for a while, I kept coming back to the idea of breath being this source of life in a way. Us breathing in life, and the ways we can breath life out onto others.

With that in mind, I worked to developed a core mechanic around inhaling and exhaling. The result is a game where you breath in “life” (good air), and exhale life around you (clearing the smog)