Gnome Improvement

Dig through the mountain! Collect treasures! Be faster than your opponent!

In this hectic local two-player game you play a gnome hunting for treasures deep inside the mountains. But be careful choosing your paht. Because real gnomes don't turn back. The biggest treasure is always waiting below. So deeper and deeper you go...

Controls

Red Player: ASD

Blue Player: Arrow Left, Arrow Down, Arrow Right

You can move left, right and down. Hit the respective key once to move. Digging away earth requires two hits, stones are not diggable. 

In the main menu each player has to press his or her down key once in order to enable the start button. Navigating in menus you need to press the down key for activating a button.

Goal

Each collected treasure gives you one point. The treasure chest at the bottom of each level is worth two points. Is the treasure chest collected by any one of the players the level ends immediately and the player with the most points wins.

Credits

Fabian Jödden: Character- and environment art & animation

Andrea Harbauer: UI design, collectible art & animation, leveldesign

Theo: Logo design, leveldesign, vfx

Lynn: Programming, pressure pad input, vfx, project management

Music and sound was created by Niklas Loose.

About Gnome Improvement

This game was developed by a team of four students as a project at the HAW Hamburg and is designed for an installation using pressure pads. The original setup uses three traverses on the sides of which pressure pads are attached. Each player has one pressure pad to their right, one to the left and one on a low table to the front. For controlling the characters on the big screen in front of the players, they use plastic pickaxes to hit the respective pressure pads (left, right, and the one in the front for downward movement).