The Game
The HARDCORE game is a short comedy console game about the art of making console games, specially the ones you make when you’re learning how to program.
Development
This game was developed at the 2023 Global Game Jam, an event where participants all over the world get a “keynote” and then develop a game about it., this year’s keynote was “Roots”. One of the common idea among the people who were participating at the local was the wordplay, in portuguese the word root may mean hardcore in a figurative way, and I decided to go with it. I had been wanting to make a comedy game (or a more narrative oriented, for that matter) for a while, but I didn’t felt confident to do so in 3 days on a game engine. Luckly the “hardcore” theme fitted well with the console game theme, and allowed me to focus on a funny story, which is what I did for most of the 3 days. I created a C++ project and wrote a story about a game trying to convince the player that they are playing the most HARDCORE game ever made, making fun of the console interface, ascii rendering errors and the limitations of the platform. I really liked the end result, presenting the game at the end of the event was amazing, and I consider it to be my first successful comedy game.
Release Date: April 2023
