JO FORCHHEIMER
GAME DESIGNER & PROGRAMMER
Past Projects
Arranged from most to least recent
I am a 3rd year Game design student studying at Champlain College in Burlington VT. I like to make weird and interesting games inspired by my experiences. I train and teach parkour and freerunning, like to build thing, and am currently looking for an internship. On this site, you will find my past works, postmortems, and current projects. Enjoy
About Me:
Coming Soon
This project was my final for my Interactive Narrative class while studying abroad in 2018. I was the only developer working on the project. All the art, code, and music was done by me. I recorded and produced most of the sounds as well. (The paper and electricution sounds were downloaded from Soundbible.com
Prototype
(Dec 2018)
My Involvement In The Project:
Summary:
Tools Used:
- Adobe Illustrator
- Unity 2D
- C# programming
- Ableton live lite 9
Context/Environment
Key frames is the story of a family that starts with the death of Ted, a hoarder maniac
grandfather. While the family is cleaning out the house, the mother, gets a phone call saying
that Ted’s will clearly states to donate all of his money to the Pacific Ocean. The parents and
older 2 siblings leave to try and sort this out. In doing so, they leave the youngest sibling, Levi,
behind to clean the house.
While cleaning the house, he finds a camera with a tape in it. The tape is a video of Ted
explaining that in the house there is a safe with another will in it that supersedes the first will.
The second will gives all of his money to whoever can solve the puzzles to get to it.
Playthrough:
More:
Music I made for the game:
Link to the Itch.io page:
Postmortem:
Intent:
All Intents was written during predevelopment and may not represent the final product.
The intent of Key Frames is to make a minimalist dark comedy narrative focused 1
button puzzle game. The game will deal with themes such as loss, family, and identity through
the eyes of its main character, Levi. The game is a 1 button game. This is to allow a player to
lean back in their seat and hold only the mouse and enjoy the story.
Target Audience
Curious people who are interested in novel and unconventional mechanics and puzzles,
narratives, and dark humor.
Tools Used:
- Adobe Photoshop
- Unity 2D
- C# programming
- Ableton live lite 9
Background:
This game was developed during a week end starting on Friday and ending on Sunday. The jam was started as a class project and was open to all Champlain College students in Montreal. 4 teams competed. The games had to be inspired by local street art
Team
Cameron Belcher
Programmer
Jo Forchheimer
Producer, Sound Designer, Programmer
Walter Hill
Programmer
Joe Siehl
Programmer
Jonathan Vogt
Writer and Artist
Dakota Williams
Designer and Artist
Summary:
MasqueRage is a top-down combat game with an array of 17 playable fighters. It's a two-player local multiplayer game necessitating the use of controllers, and the purpose of the game is simply to knock your opponent off the stage.
The teams are randomized like a gashapon machine-instead of selecting a team of fighters, it is given to the players at random, with various rarities determining how powerful the fighters you receive are.
