The Lotter-Effect has been done in under 12 hours over night for the Overnight Contest of the Dusmania 10 in July 2008 and due to it's gameplay and it's quality it won the 1st prize! The Dusmania is an anually amateur's game developer event exchanging experiences and encouragement of young talents.

SYNOPSIS

The Lotter-Effect is about a little boy called Lotti who has decided to jump up into the sky to reach the pot of gold at the end of the big rainbow he saw today. It's up to you to help them get as high as possible without falling down, and collect extra coins while flying higher and higher.

This is a fun and short, yet addictive game where your only goal is to gain as much score as possible while reaching the golden pot at the end of the rainbow. The game includes three stages with increasing difficulty: moving and static clouds, birds and even asteroids will make it difficult for our little Lotti to give him what he is starving for: the gold – and the rainbow.

THE FEATURES

• 3 stages: "San Diego", "Dieburg" and "Ronneburg"
• crazy character animations
• different locations per stage: ground, mid-air, moon area, hemisphere, space, near planet area, far planet area
• increasing difficulty: first clouds are static, then they move (horizontally, vertically, diagonally, in a circle and diagonally) and finally there are obstacles like birds and asteroids
• pure casual gaming: no guidance nor explanations are needed

DEVELOPMENT NOTES

Like the year before, there was an Overnight Contest at the Dusmania 10 in Summer 2008. In 2007 we won with "Trixie in Fairyland" the third prize, so there were enough reasons, why we should continue taking part in that competition. This year, we did'nt get a framework nor graphics for the contest, but a motto (or leitmotif or whatever): "rainbow".

Sven Paroth aka "Kiyaku" (who joined Spike and me last year, too) and I wanted to make something nice to play and we came very fast to the game idea we needed for the Lotter-Effect. We both worked over 12 hours to make the game. Even after one hour we got a working prototype of the player movement and we saw very early, that the game is fun!

C&C are welcome!

LINKS:

Download the game: the Lotter-Effect game page
More screenshots: the Lotter-Effect gallery

Btw #1 - The photo with the 4 people.. they are from left to right: Alex J & Chris B (2nd winner with Somewhere over the rainbow) and HeelX & Kiyaku)

Btw #2 - here are more pictures from the Dusmania 10

Bye,
Chris and Sven