People Leader - GGJ 2020
People Leader was our entry for the 2020 Global Game Jam. It was based on a desire to revisit one of my older games, “Leader of Mans”, except to bring it into VR.
An incredibly compelling feeling in VR is to act as a giant looking down at a living world, and interact with it like a living board game. I wanted to invoke the feeling of a classic god game, like Populus or Black and White. And leveraging the overhead VR feel really enhances that. This naturally leads to two key mechanics, being able to pick up your individual worshipers, and to cast miracles.
People Leader came together really well for a 48 hour game jam. Although we were doing VR at work, it was great and surprisingly easy to start fresh with OpenVR and get the VR interactions working “from scratch”.
The source code is available on my github .
It was great working with the team! Alex Carlson is another programmer, well known for his skateboarding dog game Ollie Oop . Lizzy Siemers is a fantastic artist and did the character design and portrait. It was my first time working with Kirstine , and she did great with the 3D character art and animations. And as always, Robert Frost III did amazing with music- we’ve worked together many times since.
People Leader was made by the team:
- Andy Korth, Programming
- Alex Carlson, Programming
- Elizabeth Siemers, Art
- Kirstine Nordtorp-Nielsen, Art
- Robert Frost III, Audio
More information on the People Leader global game jam page, or download a windows build (needs SteamVR).