Little Al´s Venture

"Little Al´s Venture"

A Run&Gun Pixel Game with the focus on tricky platforming 

It´s an adventure around the power of friendship. The protagonist Al has to survive the chaos in the lab, explore secret rooms and, above all, relegate the evil "bots". In the course of the game, the players have to ask themselves: Who is behind all this hustle and bustle?

Little Al is an ambitious genius from a young age. At his side is Elsa, the little robot lady, his first successful invention. The two are best friends, and Al fulfills her wish for a robot friend. But the young inventor strives for more and sets out to develop his most ambitious project. The project called "Milly" – a thought machine – is taking shape. Elsa is not very enthusiastic about this and even fears that Al is putting himself in great danger with his plan - to be the first test subject. 

Despite all the reassurances of his friend Elsa, Al decides to start the experiment. The countdown starts, the sparks fly and everything goes black. When Al regains consciousness, the difference between dream and wakefulness is no longer quite clear. The lab seems to have gotten out of control and the toy robots have also come to life. On "Little Al's" search for the origin of this hustle and bustle, he encounters even greater dangers than the little mastermind could ever have imagined. 

                                                 

   Shoot                    Run                  Dash

       

The Evil Bot´s      

Can you find me?  I´m pretty alone...      

Software: Unity / Aseprite / Adobe Photoshop / Adobe Premiere Pro / Audacity

Audio: weloveindies

Special Thank you: I would like to thank my family for their love, my colleagues and teachers at htk academy for their incredible support. Credits and names you can find in the game via Levelselect Credits

About: I´m Michael Schitnig (engl. Zitnik) from Austria and I´m a freelance fine artist for more than 10 years with my duo partner Marleen Leitner. We call ourselves „studio ASYNCHROME“. After working more than a decade in the field of Architecture, Urbanism und Fine Arts and exhibiting in more than 12 countries and different cities like New York, Rome, Vienna, Dresden, Dubai, Athens, Oslo etc., I decided to start studying again and find myself in the exciting field of Game Creation at the htk academy Hamburg.

This is my first semester project with the title „Little Al´s Venture“. It´s for sure not a perfect game, but hopefully a fun and exciting experience with a lovely story. In the imperfection lies the inspiration – and this is just the beginning.

Michael - GammaWorks