[SA GAME JAM 2016] The Honest Emoji

FanieG

SA Game Jam 2016

- Project name: The Honest Emoji
- Level of experience: Hobbyist
- 48hr entry
- Team members: FanieG (programming & art)
The_Sired_Ward (Music)




Express yourself through the magic of Emojis. Basically Pictionary with emojis. Player one generates a headline, while player 2 looks away. Player then needs to translate the headline into emoji (maximum of 5). Player two then has to translate the emoji back into a headline. Then compare the 2 headlines...laugh at each other...swop roles and continue expressing yourself.

Enjoy.

FanieG

So here's a screenie of our progress after the first few hours. Changed the idea a bit, so changed the name a bit. Going for a pictionary with emojis type thing. Still have a ton to do, hope we didn't overscope this one :)

Jelligeth

Cool, I'm also drawing inspiration from emoji for mine, although faaaaar more limited x)

In my own interest too, are the whatsapp emojis free for public use?

FanieG

@Jelligeth...seems you're right. Will change them to an open source set soonest. Thanks for the heads up.

FanieG

New open source set of emojis added. Now to try and actually get everything to work before 17h00

FanieG

Turns out the name Emojinary is already a thing, so had to change the name back to the original title. This has turned out to be a bit of a trademark disaster.

FanieG

Final build is up on itch.io:

https://fanieg.itch.io/the-honest-emoji

Had a blast making this, and did not get to a ton of ideas we wanted to implement. Great song was composed and played by @The_Sired_Ward. Instructions can be found in OP.

The_Sired_Ward

I love the headlines! Some of them are pretty hilarious

Jelligeth

Keen to give this a shot tomorrow morning when my player 2 wakes up.