Way Back Home

waybackhome website

Inspiration

We were reminded of our Childhood days when presented with the theme of a campfire. As little kids, most of us would pretend to have a campfire inside our homes with our friends and family, there we would play games and make . Taking inspiration from this wonderful feeling we decided to make a game about a little flame lighting up a gloomy foggy world that lights up everyone's heart along the way. Centered around joy and hard work, together our character and his friends will find his way back home.

What it does

Provides a heartfelt story as the main character travels the world

How we built it

We created a website using Weebly. Inside it, we created a button that opens another window containing the game. This feature was made using the react-unity-webgl npm package. The game itself was made in unity.

Challenges we ran into

Encountered some trouble with obstacle scripting
Reading through the documentation and learning the intricacies of a new npm package
Time constraints limiting our creativity
Learning certain unity concepts in the limited time frame

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating a game in less than two days
Creating an awesome website
Good efficient communication

What we learned

Use Weebly to create a website
Use Unity to create a game
Use react-unity-webgl to link the website and unity game

What's next for Way Back Home

We plan to expand on the visual storytelling aspects with custom assets that set the atmosphere alongside more game mechanics and better level design to keep the player engaged.