Home

Welcome home...

A small Sugar Glider greets the night in order to gather food for its family before morning. Traversing its natural Australian bush habitat, the sugar glider evades predators while exploring the vast landscape and meeting many animal friends along the way, however, there is a darkness in the bush as vicious and monstrous humans roam the land in search of prey. With the passage of time, these invaders encroach more and more on the small Sugar Glider's home and twist it to their whim.

Home is an visual narrative from the perspective of a humble Sugar Glider in the Australian Outback. The project aims to place the player in the mind of a vulnerable animal as it explores and navigates its natural habitat, its 'home', while depicting the the slow decline of wildlife, land, and resources.

The player controls a Sugar Glider who needs to gather up as much food as he can before the day comes but must be careful to not be caught by hunters. Each year the Sugar Glider goes out and gathers up food but with each passing year the player sees humans encroaching on the its habitat by building settlements and cutting down large sections of trees for their own lands. Resources become more and more limited and the number of dangerous humans slowly climbs with each passing year.

The main issue of this game is to highlight the effect of deforestation and human impact on the natural habitat and wildlife in Australia, specifically, the effect from the perspective of a Sugar Glider, a small innocent and harmless animal.

Who worked on this game

Programmers

- Cameron Mullins (Team Leader, Lead Programmer)

- Myles Okorn 

Designers

- Stephen Cavaleri (Lead Designer)

- Cameron Davis

- Charles Lo Giudice

~~~~Assets Used~~~~

- 'Open World Demo Collection' by Epic Games

-'Animal Variety Pack' by PROTOFACTOR INC

-'WaterMill Environment' by SilverTm

-'Water Materials' by tharlevfx

-'Soul: Cave' by Epic Games

-'Infinity Blade: Grasslands' by Epic Games

-'a lowPoly lumberjack' by 3DAssetForge

-'Bolt Action Rifle (Custom)' by ModelGalore

-'Gum Tree and Nuts' by erlandh

-'Radioactive barrel' by MclarenCZ

-'Big Snow Font' by Khurasan

-'JCB 3D Model Free 3D model' by azamania

-'How to Draw a Simple Tree' by Wikihow 
[https://www.wikihow.com/Draw-a-Simple-Tree]

-'Menu Builder Carousel' by W3 Studios

~~~~Audio Used~~~~

-'Brush hits - 14.wav' by adcbicycle

-'Wind On Beach' by BrandonNyte

-'Right Grass/Grassy Footsteps' by Ali_6868

-'Leaves_Rustling_Edited' by AmberdeMeillon

-'Atmos Umina Australian Bush Country Birds' by Transfer

-'GunShot' by schots

~~~~Facts From~~~~

-'10 facts about deforestation in Australia' 
by Wilderness Society [www.wilderness.org.au]

-'Deforestation in Eastern Australia' by 
WWF Living Forests Report
[http://wwf.panda.org]

-'Tree Clearing' by WWF
[https://www.wwf.org.au]