Jeffery Yang's Portfolio

2024

Self Defense

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I made Self Defense as part of a 11 person team for the Brackeys Game Jam 2024. Our game placed in the top 15% of all games submitted, and placed in the top 2% for Innovation and top 7% for Theme.

The theme for this game was “Calm Before the Storm”. We decided to design the game to meet the theme by having a “calm” phase where players would be in control of their character and a “storm” phase where the player’s character broke free from the player’s control and needed to be stopped.

I was responsible for a significant portion of the development of the game, as well as designing aspects ranging from tower and traps to parts of the monster’s moveset.

Player Comments:
“Super interesting concept and take on the theme! I’ve seen this concept in movies, but I don’t think I’ve played a game where you defend other people from your monster self before.”
“I loved the creative twist you put on the tower defense genre! The concept is really engaging, and I found it fun to experiment with different tower combinations.”
“The concept is genius. In the preparation phase i was thinking about how the enemies would look like, not realizing it was me! Hahaha, that’s a good twist.”