Homeless Hero Adventure

A prototype for a serious game i made in uni. It aimed to bring awareness to homelessness in Cape town and how the U-Turn organization helps combat homelessness. This is achieved by the player going through a story based 2d platformer where they climb up the ranks of the U-Turn rehabilitation program starting from the bottom as being homeless and begging, to having a job and a roof over their head. This unfolds through the the story of each level. Currently there is only a vertical slice of the base level(possible further development into a full game in the future). On the currently built level the player moves along the level collection coins and asking npcs for help and the goal is to reach the homeless center before starving to death, to get into the homeless center the player needs to find the U-Turn meal voucher.

Fun mechanic which connects the players health with hunger, the hungrier the player gets the lower their health goes. Different choices within the dialogue led to different rewards for the player.

Used Scriptable Objects as well as Singleton pattern