The Aftermath

Well, this is it for this semesters project.

It was a fun and interesting experience, a very different game than the ones we did before. And we are really proud of it just the way it is! On Wednesday the 12th of February we received the critique and review on the projects from our professors over at the Hochschule Darmstadt. Especially our project received a lot of praise, because it was so polished and presentable! We couldn´t be luckier, right?

But what now?

For starters, we have signed up our game for the German Computer Game Award (DCP) in the category "Best Concept from School and College", FoldUp is the entry number 601, so hold your thumbs and wish us luck!! (The award comes with a nifty 35.000€ reward that we could put into doing even more awesome games)

And then, sadly, we will have to cease work on FoldUp.
Next semester, we will need to focus on our Bachelor Degree project, which each of the team members will do separately. This will be hard and straining, in fact some even start now to get a little bit more time! But that doesn´t mean we will forget this project. FoldUp is great, and as my last deed as the Social Media Manager, I want to show you how YOUR 2D Kirigami Patterns made with FoldUp can look if you print them out and Fold them, creating your own Kirigami Pop-Up book!

 

You can find the rest of the gallery (all of our levels in real paper) on our Facebook page!

Thanks for the continued support and, FOLD SOME STUFF!

Beta Build for User Testing!

The moment we have been waiting for.

The moment where we present you with our creation. It has arrived.

The FoldUp Game Open Beta v0.9d(Windows Build, ~36MB)

You can find your patterns and levels from the Editor in the "Assets\Levels" folder of this archive, so don´t forget to save and name it properly ;) When you "Load Texture" to give your created patterns some color, choose "Texture" in the popup window.

(try loading "christmastree" and "kugel" in the editor ;D)

Important: Diagonal Lines, Holes and Flaps are not supported. Horizontal and Vertical Lines only.

Currently the buttons for "Help" and "Options" (questionmark and gears respectively) do not have a function yet. Same goes for the "Share" and "Download" buttons after finishing a level, but these will be there in the final version for sure :)

For now, here is the tutorial screen for the Game part, as well as the downloadable and printable patterns for the first level!

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Version 1

Version 2

The whole team of FoldUp would love to hear what you think of this, in regards to graphis, audio, usability, fun. Was it hard to solve the puzzles? Was it too easy? What can we do better? Does the Editor have everything you need for creating your own patterns? Was there something you missed?

Maybe you even took the time to create a pattern yourself – show us, send us an email or post on our Facebook page!

Thanks for your continued support everyone, we hope you like it so far!