WHAT IS Number Two Ice Cream Shop?

Welcome to Number Two Ice Cream Shop! In this exciting and silly 2D game, you play as a little gnome working in an ice cream shop. Catch as much ice cream as you can to serve them to your enthusiastic customers while avoiding trash falling onto the ice cream. BUT, where is the ice cream coming from???

Showcased AT USC GAMES EXPO 2020

Showcased AT Geidai GAMES EXPO 2020

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PROJECT OVERVIEW

GAME DETAILS

Genre: Catching and Stacking
Platform: PC and Mac
Game Engine: Unity
My Roles: Co-designer · Engineer · Producer

LOGISTICS

Project Duration: November 2019 - April 2020
Team Size: 4
- Muyang Li - Co-designer, Engineer
- Shushu Li - Animator, Artist
- Justin Schornstein - Composer, SFX Designer

PROCESS

MY CONTRIBUTIONS

❖ Designed and implemented the level progression, audio system, animations, player character controller, and camera zoom system in Unity.
❖ Led brainstorms and created paper prototype with teammates to explore ideas and concepts for this project.
❖ Set up Github and Unity project, and established workflow pipelines with teammates.
❖ Created and maintained design documents, and kept track of production using Trello and Burndown Chart.
❖ Held weekly meetings where I communicated with my teammates in Mandarin Chinese.
❖ Presented our progress at Milestone meetings with faculty from both USC and Geidai.

Project Macro that outlines the major sections of the game.

Early digital prototype of our “ice cream” catching idea we made using Unity.

Storyboard of the level progression for our final concept. Art by Shushu Li.

A drawing of our initial concept. We wanted to have three levels where the player catches disgusting things, but doesn’t know what they’re catching. Due to scope, we focused on building out Stage 1. Art by Shushu Li.

Our whiteboard of ideas and thoughts for the project during our first brainstorm session.

My teammates and I having brainstorm session when they visited USC.

My team’s paper prototype where we focused on our design goals of surprising the player and making them feel disgusted.

My teammates and I presenting our paper prototype to our peers and faculty.

EXPERIENCE GOALS

❖ The audience will experience a shock moment when they realize what they thought the ice cream have been catching turns out to be poop.
❖ The audience will experience 3 different levels where, upon completing each level, they will be rewarded with the feeling of discovery with images of the world they are playing in.

DESIGN GOALS

❖ Conceal and reveal the world through camera zoom outs as the player progresses in order to build up excitement and anticipation for the end of the game.
❖ Art Direction: Simple and cute 2D hand-drawn art.

Burndown Chart used to track our tasks and progress during Production phase.

Burndown Chart Line Graph showing our task load throughout Production phase

A slide from our Alpha Milestone presentation with USC and Geidai faculty showing our Ideation and Pre-Production work.

Trello board used to track tasks during Ideation, Pre-Production, Production, and Post-Production.

GAMEPLAY

ABOUT Number Two Ice Cream SHop!

Number Two Ice Cream Shop! (うーん、これはおいしい！) is a game created through the collaboration program between USC’s Interactive Media and Games Division and Tokyo University of the Arts Games Program (Geidai). As one of five students selected for the first year of the collaboration program, I had the opportunity to work with talented students to prototype and develop a game over the course of six months.