Evergreen
Island

Engine and Creation

Developed With: Unreal Engine 4 and Blueprint
Game Jam: Confetti x NTU Sustainability Jam - Energy
Date Developed: March 2021 - 36 Hours
Status: Released - 3rd out of 8 Teams!
Platform: Windows
Play Here: https://gamesbysaul.itch.io/evergreen-island
Team Size: 3 - I was the lead programmer and a designer
Other Assets: 3D Art (Elizabeth Baird), Audio (John Wilkinson) and 2D Art (Alex Farmer)

Main Features

Point and Click
Random Weather System
In-Game Achievements
Dolphin Puns

What is Evergreen Island?

As part of a game jam hosted by my university in an event to raise awareness for the climate crisis, my team and I were given the theme of Energy, and with this theme in mind we decided to create a point and click game where the goal was to clean up the ocean around your island, plant trees and to use renewable energy resources. You unlock in-game achievements throughout, in the form of evergreen trees. The aim of the jam was to create an education experience for people to learn more about climate change in a fun way and that is exactly what our team provided.

What did I learn?

Due to the short tiem frame of the jam we didn't attempt to do anything too adventurous but I did learn more about creating point and click games in Unreal something which I will find extremely useful for future projects or future mechanics.