Our Game Jam ran over Valentines day which was a rather obvious cue to take for the theme. The theme we chose was One Heart to Break which I think is pretty nice because it immediately suggests a whole host of mechanics, flavors and narratives. Team Maggi were the stand out winners though for taking the theme completely literally. You have one heart to break… your own, and you do so by eating yourself to death. The game was a card game themed around a dubious fast-food place that sits next door to the CCP office. Your aim is to lose your starting life points before anyone else and you do so by eating meals and their toppings. At the same time you have other cards you can play immediately on others to reduce the effects of their meals. Send another player to the gym and they lose some of the points value of their meal. Make them projectile vomit and one of the meals in their stomach is violently deposited into your own.
Team Maggi had a reasonably huge team as a lot of them couldn’t make both days. For the most part they are EVE developers with the additional talents of our CEO Hilmar, his daughter and Hinrik one of EVE’s game masters. Again it’s pretty hard to demo being a physical thing so here is a shot of the game in the final stages of production.
Team Maggi making the final preparations to demo their game.
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