Cheese, Roll, Repeat

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Cheese, Roll, Repeat

Project type

Design process to vertical slice (solo project)

Date

February and May 2025

Miro link

Click to see the design process behind it

Itch.io link

Click here to try the game

The project was about developing a vertical slice of a game starting from a concept I brainstormed and prototyped during the semester.
I chose to make a game about the Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake competition. In this traditional competition a cheese wheel gets thrown from the top of a hill and people have to chase after it by running down the hill.
In this game the player takes the control over the cheese, rolling down the hill, with the goal of successfully reach the end of the hill avoiding obstacles along the way. The player can steer the cheese and make it jump as well as catching powerups to use special powers.

The idea for the game came after a brainstorming process. I start from THEMES ideas (yellow post it) and develop GAME ideas from them (orange post it).

I eventually followed the thread of a goofy physics based racing game

But first I tried and evaluated other concepts as well, before choosing the cheese rolling one

Following an iterative workflow I brainstormed and tested new ideas for the game

That's how the cheese bomb was included

The experience is supposed to be casual, light-hearted, and fairly chaotic.
Although it’s important to keep the game readable, it is also true that part of the fun of the game is not being in full control of the situations. The lack of control due to being subject to the laws of physics creates fun, always different, unpredictable scenarios.

PROGRESSION:
The game registers some metrics during the session: meters rolled, time left, falls, max speed
This for example push the player to play a new session to improve his time.
Even with in the current version I noticed that the players are stimulated by being pushed for a better time. Therefore, some messages at the end of the session were added, to provide this further “push”.

INTERESTING CHOICES:
- What path to take through the obstacles
- Going slower to catch the power up
- Where and when to use the cheese bomb
- Ramps expose you to the risk of falling.

After catching the powerup, the player can detonate the Cheese Bomb. It’s a stinky explosion that destroys all the static objects around the cheese in a certain range. It is useful to keep the speed where you would bump into an obstacle instead.

When the cheese bomb detonates a comic-like bomb VFX appears on the screen, and a loud fart sound is played.

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