Backdated to 2020 because it looked weird in 2026 xD
For the 2019 GMTK Game Jam we made Paparazzi Panic, a little arcade fighting game about a group of photographers who all want the same shot. There's only one camera, and the celebrity everyone is chasing is Crimson Nohansson. You fight the other paparazzi for the camera, and whoever is holding it when the moment comes gets the picture.
Rounds only last a few minutes, which fit the jam well. It's built in Unity for Windows and plays with keyboard and mouse.
Five of us worked on it. Dan Alexander, Joel Shafer, and I split design and programming, Omni Jacala handled design and art, and Will Bowerman did the design, music, and sound. Having a real soundtrack in a jam game was a nice treat.
It's a prototype and it has some rough edges. Scoring didn't come together before the deadline, so you'll end up with either 0/5 or 5/5 and nothing in between. It also needs to run fullscreen at 1920x1080 or the UI gets cut off, sorry about that! We've talked about expanding the idea someday, so I'm hoping we get to come back to it.
If you'd like to give it a try, it's a free download on itch.io. Let us know what you think!
