CarrotTrapped

For this 4-day game jam, the theme was Rabbits with the limitation "Player is the weakest creature". I came up with the idea that the rabbit would be collecting carrots in a garden while avoiding the traps that the gardener placed in the garden. I came up with multiple traps that one may encounter when dealing with such a rodent problem.

I wanted the level to be a sandbox of mechanics and puzzles, each section showing off a different puzzle or obstacle. Within each section, I made it in such a way as to make it clear to the player what to do while still being challenging enough to immerse the player.

In Unreal Engine 5, I used the visual blueprints to cast to objects to call different functions for each death scene. I also made an item system to count the number of Items needed to activate the traps and finish the game.

I wanted to make the game pretty relaxing to play, so I stuck with simple gameplay where I used sound effects to show what the player is doing. Sound effects like moving, triggering objects, and dying due to the traps all sound different.