The town is crawling with unhappy babies! Be a good granny and help save the residents of your town and stop the crying! Equipped with the latest cookie gun in town, run through the streets and feed as many babies before time expires!

Creators:

Chaz Acheronti – Programmer

Chris Dal Porto – Tile Sprite Artist (Grass, Cement, Roads)

Jasmine Zamora – Baby and Grandma Animator

Ki Sung Park – Object Artist (Fire Hydrant, Trash Can)

Controls:

WASD / DPAD : Right, Left, Up, Down

SPACEBAR / TRIGGER: Fire

Q, E, K / LEFT TRIGGER: Aim

Alpha Testing

I decided to Alpha Test our game with friends and family members who varied in game playing experience.  Seeing older generations playing video games was an experience in itself!  Aside from that, their experiences and input was a learning experience as a designer because I was able to see what worked and didn’t work for those who do and don’t typically play video games.

Based on this alpha testing what I gathered was this;

What worked:

-Artwork: Players enjoyed the colors and artistic styles.

-Music:  Players enjoyed the music and felt as though it fit with the game style.  They also liked the baby gurgling noises.

-Premise: Players enjoyed the premise of the game and thought using grandmas, cookies and babies was a fun and cute idea.

Needs Improvement:

-Scoreboard: Players would have liked a better indicator of how they were doing/ how they did by the game’s end.

-Happify indicator:  Players thought that that there should be a better indicator for when a baby was happified.  Perhaps a different position to indicate a baby was happified.  Many players continued to feed the babies cookies thinking they were still unhappy and wasted time instead of moving on to the next target.

-More/Different Ammo:  One suggestion was including a baby sitter at the player’s disposal that was capable of happifying more than one baby at a time.  Other suggestions included adding different types of ammo like pacifiers that would have different/stronger effects.

Personal Improvements:

I actually really agree with the improvement suggestions that the play testers suggested.  I’m happy with the alpha test of the game but as one of the artists, outside of suggestions play testers presented, think there could be some more art that I can add.  Perhaps more grandma selections or varying selections players can choose from.  By adding more art a lot of the alpha testing suggestions would also be catered to (i.e. scoreboard, more/different ammo, different baby position to indicate a happy baby, etc.).