THIEF AND CO.

*** Game is actively in development, this release is not the final version.

Summary

Thief and Co. is a couch cooperative multiplayer game for 1-4 players where you play as a band of misfits trying to heist a valuable diamond from a museum.

Description

In Thief and Co., one to four players explore a fully procedural museum level and try to complete up to 4 different types of objectives to take down the security protecting the final objective: the diamond. The thieves must steal the diamond to escape the museum and win. There are guards searching for the thieves. The guards are an AI system that attempt to hunt down the thieves and tie them up to stop them from getting the diamond.

We created this game because we love couch cooperative games, and wanted to bring together ideas from other games we loved.

Credits

Malik Ouda - Project manager, publishing producer, engineer
Malik is a student at the Univeristy of Texas at Austin pursuing a Bachelor's of Science in Arts and Entertainment Technologies for graduation in May 2020. He is also a McCombs Master of Science Bridge candidate, and will be pursuing his Masters of Science in Information Technology and Management for graduation in May 2021. He has skills in software and game development.

Torry Mathis - Technical lead
Torry is a senior at the University of Texas at Austin studying Arts and Entertainment Technologies with an emphasis on Game Development and programming. He will graduate in Fall 2019.

Jim Arnett - Creative director
Jim is a senior at the University of Texas at Austin studying Arts and Entertainment Technologies with an emphasis on Game Development and Game Design. He will graduate in Spring 2020.

Tylor Hawkins - 3D modeler and animator
Tylor is a senior at the University of Texas at Austin studying Arts and Entertainment Technologies with a focus on Games and 2D and 3D Art. He will graduate in Spring 2020.

Title and Level music:
Nathaniel Meeks
Owner of Dark Tea Music
[email protected]
www.darkteamusic.com

Alert music:
"Faster Does It" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Development

This was originally developed in Fall 2019. We started with simple level generation and developed an AI to traverse the level. We then added objectives and finally art to the game.

Going Forward

We plan to implement more polish to the game, continuing to fix bugs, and improve on gameplay by speeding it up. We also plan to add more character animations.

Research

Our research involved playing games like Overcooked and other couch cooperative games to see what's fun. We also looked at lots of reference for the art in the game, which is almost entirely original work by Jim Arnett and Tylor Hawkins.