You're sitting down for a puppet show, until suddenly...

They start brutally fighting! Strings are snapping, limbs are flying!

May the last puppet hanging be declared the master of puppets!

No Strings Attached is a 2 player slapstick fighting game. With absurd and brutal combat of physic based characters controlled via strings. Pick your puppet and puppeteer them to victory. Dominate the stage as the best of three wins. Destroy your opponent and snap their strings by swinging, flopping, and flailing as hard as you can!

As a game designer on the team, I was set the responsibilities of:

• Game design documentation

• Stress testing

• QA origination

• Sound design

• Combat balancing

The design and flow of the combat went though some design iterations due to a lack of clarided on who was winning.

The complexity of the combat was originally had too much going on and did not match the design of a casual pick up and play.

In turn the UI for the health was updated to show what strings had snaped and the total heath, and the combat was set out to be more simple with a parry and a single strike.

My favorite part about this project was working together as a team to produce our first playable game, whilst learning how to better communicate between the other disciplines.