Power point presentation for Popcorn Panic

1. Developed for Microsoft
At UC Santa Cruz

2. The Team
Alexander Buc, abuc@ucsc.edu
 Lead Front-End Developer
Ethan Shimooka, sshimook@ucsc.edu
 Lead Art and Design Developer
Taylor Owen-Milner, towenmil@ucsc.edu
 Lead Back-End Developer

3. Project Summary
 Single player twitch arcade game for the
Microsoft Surface RT
 Created in 10 weeks by 2 devs and 1 artist
 A game designed around popping kernels
and gathering popcorn using the swipe
mechanic

4. What is Popcorn Panic?
 Swipe kernels against the edge of the pot
to pop them, then swipe the bag in to
collect the popcorn
 Kernels and popcorn burn if left too long

5. Not Juicy Enough?
 Screen Shake
 We added power-ups:
 Chocolate Kernel
 Freeze Kernel
 Kettle Kernel

6. Core Gameplay Loop
 Swipe kernels to pop
them
 Swipe the bag to
collect

7. Only 3 lives before......

8. Audience
 Anyone ages 3+
 Made for arcade
gamers
 “Fun game, it was
super addicting!”
 “Sounds fit the scene
perfectly.”
 “The game play was
very quick and a lot
of fun.”

9. Art
 Old Art
 New Art

10. Kernel Popping

11. Power-Up Art

12. Now for the History of Popcorn Panic

13. Before....
 We used to be Kernel
Panik, but we liked
Popcorn Panic better
 Used to be just tap to
pop kernels and
that's it
 However, we were
told it was too simple
so we juiced it up.

14. Design Accomplishments

16. Finalized Art

17. Design Accomplishments
 Core Mechanic Change
 From tap to swipe
 Added juiciness
 Multiple UI fixes
 Decision of which core mechanic to use

18. Technical Accomplishments
 Large difficulty in source control for Construct 2
 Porting to the surface

19. If there was more time....
 In-app purchases for skins
 Global High Score for all players
 Ads
 Always more polishing

20. Trailer
Watch here!

21. Q/A