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Rebekah Bledsoe
Technical Designer - TheTinyDeveloperStudio@gmail.com
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Bubble Bends
Bubble Bends is a project I worked on for the 2025 Global Game Jam. My sister and I worked for 48 hours to create the game based on the 2025 year's theme: Bubble.
In our game, the player must dive for treasure while losing oxygen slowly. The diver must resurface to gain oxygen, and they need to return to their boat to sell treasure in order to upgrade their skills. Coral is scattered throughout the caverns below, which can help replenish oxygen as well. I worked on scripting the complete functionality for the game, as well as implementing sound effects and maintaining the build. I took a bit of a different approach for controls, and ended up having the player follow the user's cursor, to make navigation feel more dive-like.
You can play Bubble Bends on my Itch.io page by following the link at the top of this page.
This game was made within 48 hours by me and my sister for the Global Game Jam. This video shows off the complete gameplay of the jam project including the Main Menu, the short cutscene on hitting play, collectable treasure, the upgrade and treasure shop, decaying/replenishing oxygen amounts, and a death screen.
This is the main menu for Bubble Bends. It includes a credits menu, instructions menu, start button, and quit button. A short cutscene of the ship sailing plays after the start button is pressed. Creating the cutscene was fairly simple and mainly relied on the boat object in the scene reaching a goal zone, where it would trigger the start of the game scene.
The credits menu includes my sister and myself, but it also includes where certain free sounds for sound effects were found.
The instructions give a short description of the game's goal and controls. I used a basic UI menu controller script to handle menu opening/closing by using referenced menu objects in an array.
The player can swim in the direction of their mouse cursor, and if they swim over an object with a free slot, they'll pick it up. The player starts with one slot on their hand. As the player ventures underwater, their oxygen amount will slowly decrease. I coded the oxygen to deplete at a constant rate, and the different areas where the player loses/gains oxygen are tagged for easy reference within a trigger method in a script.
As the player gradually loses oxygen under the water, they can find coral underneath which will replenish their air amount. This regeneration will be slower than if the player went to the surface, but it is helpful in having a safe spot.
After collecting treasure, the player can bring it to their ship to sell and purchase upgrades. These upgrades include bigger storage, more oxygen, and faster swim speed. Treasure is stored in an array, which can be upgraded and expanded to contain more slots. The player swim speed and oxygen amounts are also just floats that can be changed for upgrading as well.
If the player runs out of all of their oxygen while underwater, the death menu will appear and gives the player the option to return to the main menu or restart the level. Creating the various menus was mainly for functionality with our time constraint, so I focused on that more than making them aesthetically pleasing.
This game was made within 48 hours by me and my sister for the Global Game Jam. This video shows off the complete gameplay of the jam project including the Main Menu, the short cutscene on hitting play, collectable treasure, the upgrade and treasure shop, decaying/replenishing oxygen amounts, and a death screen.
This is the main menu for Bubble Bends. It includes a credits menu, instructions menu, start button, and quit button. A short cutscene of the ship sailing plays after the start button is pressed. Creating the cutscene was fairly simple and mainly relied on the boat object in the scene reaching a goal zone, where it would trigger the start of the game scene.
The credits menu includes my sister and myself, but it also includes where certain free sounds for sound effects were found.
The instructions give a short description of the game's goal and controls. I used a basic UI menu controller script to handle menu opening/closing by using referenced menu objects in an array.
The player can swim in the direction of their mouse cursor, and if they swim over an object with a free slot, they'll pick it up. The player starts with one slot on their hand. As the player ventures underwater, their oxygen amount will slowly decrease. I coded the oxygen to deplete at a constant rate, and the different areas where the player loses/gains oxygen are tagged for easy reference within a trigger method in a script.
As the player gradually loses oxygen under the water, they can find coral underneath which will replenish their air amount. This regeneration will be slower than if the player went to the surface, but it is helpful in having a safe spot.
After collecting treasure, the player can bring it to their ship to sell and purchase upgrades. These upgrades include bigger storage, more oxygen, and faster swim speed. Treasure is stored in an array, which can be upgraded and expanded to contain more slots. The player swim speed and oxygen amounts are also just floats that can be changed for upgrading as well.
If the player runs out of all of their oxygen while underwater, the death menu will appear and gives the player the option to return to the main menu or restart the level. Creating the various menus was mainly for functionality with our time constraint, so I focused on that more than making them aesthetically pleasing.
This game was made within 48 hours by me and my sister for the Global Game Jam. This video shows off the complete gameplay of the jam project including the Main Menu, the short cutscene on hitting play, collectable treasure, the upgrade and treasure shop, decaying/replenishing oxygen amounts, and a death screen.
This is the main menu for Bubble Bends. It includes a credits menu, instructions menu, start button, and quit button. A short cutscene of the ship sailing plays after the start button is pressed. Creating the cutscene was fairly simple and mainly relied on the boat object in the scene reaching a goal zone, where it would trigger the start of the game scene.
The credits menu includes my sister and myself, but it also includes where certain free sounds for sound effects were found.
The instructions give a short description of the game's goal and controls. I used a basic UI menu controller script to handle menu opening/closing by using referenced menu objects in an array.
The player can swim in the direction of their mouse cursor, and if they swim over an object with a free slot, they'll pick it up. The player starts with one slot on their hand. As the player ventures underwater, their oxygen amount will slowly decrease. I coded the oxygen to deplete at a constant rate, and the different areas where the player loses/gains oxygen are tagged for easy reference within a trigger method in a script.
As the player gradually loses oxygen under the water, they can find coral underneath which will replenish their air amount. This regeneration will be slower than if the player went to the surface, but it is helpful in having a safe spot.
After collecting treasure, the player can bring it to their ship to sell and purchase upgrades. These upgrades include bigger storage, more oxygen, and faster swim speed. Treasure is stored in an array, which can be upgraded and expanded to contain more slots. The player swim speed and oxygen amounts are also just floats that can be changed for upgrading as well.
If the player runs out of all of their oxygen while underwater, the death menu will appear and gives the player the option to return to the main menu or restart the level. Creating the various menus was mainly for functionality with our time constraint, so I focused on that more than making them aesthetically pleasing.
This game was made within 48 hours by me and my sister for the Global Game Jam. This video shows off the complete gameplay of the jam project including the Main Menu, the short cutscene on hitting play, collectable treasure, the upgrade and treasure shop, decaying/replenishing oxygen amounts, and a death screen.
This is the main menu for Bubble Bends. It includes a credits menu, instructions menu, start button, and quit button. A short cutscene of the ship sailing plays after the start button is pressed. Creating the cutscene was fairly simple and mainly relied on the boat object in the scene reaching a goal zone, where it would trigger the start of the game scene.
The credits menu includes my sister and myself, but it also includes where certain free sounds for sound effects were found.
The instructions give a short description of the game's goal and controls. I used a basic UI menu controller script to handle menu opening/closing by using referenced menu objects in an array.
The player can swim in the direction of their mouse cursor, and if they swim over an object with a free slot, they'll pick it up. The player starts with one slot on their hand. As the player ventures underwater, their oxygen amount will slowly decrease. I coded the oxygen to deplete at a constant rate, and the different areas where the player loses/gains oxygen are tagged for easy reference within a trigger method in a script.
As the player gradually loses oxygen under the water, they can find coral underneath which will replenish their air amount. This regeneration will be slower than if the player went to the surface, but it is helpful in having a safe spot.
After collecting treasure, the player can bring it to their ship to sell and purchase upgrades. These upgrades include bigger storage, more oxygen, and faster swim speed. Treasure is stored in an array, which can be upgraded and expanded to contain more slots. The player swim speed and oxygen amounts are also just floats that can be changed for upgrading as well.
If the player runs out of all of their oxygen while underwater, the death menu will appear and gives the player the option to return to the main menu or restart the level. Creating the various menus was mainly for functionality with our time constraint, so I focused on that more than making them aesthetically pleasing.
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