Tip of the Iceberg (Casey Ramos, shaynanigans)

Game Summary

Tip and Mama Jo have lived together on their iceberg for Tip’s whole life, but it’s finally time for Tip to find his own waddle.  Mama Jo isn’t happy about Tip’s leaving, but she wants to take him hunting one last time to show him parts of their ocean he’s never seen closely before.  What will they find once they dive deep below the tip of the iceberg?

Objective

Journey around the underbelly of the iceberg and find Mama Jo's 4 hidden oysters.  Hint: There are two on each side!

Genre

Point-and-click narrative adventure.

Controls

On Ice:

• Point and click to move
• Spacebar to advance dialogue
• ESC to Quit application

Underwater:

• Move with mouse (Tip follows cursor position)
• ESC to Quit application

Meet the Team!

Qianning Tang - Project Manager, Artist & Animator 

    Twitter: @QianningTatum         Email: [email protected] 

Shay Yano - Game Design, Programming, & Sound Design 

Twitter: @shaynanigansEXE        Email: [email protected] 

Casey Ramos - Narrative Design & Sound Design 

    Twitter: @caseydovar                  Email: [email protected] 

Words from the Creators

We created “Tip of the Iceberg” after a team heart-to-heart about motherhood that boiled down to… “Wow. What we grew up knowing about our mothers was really just the tip of the iceberg.” 

Our team was especially drawn to the concept of unconventional motherhood, and how completely human mothers are behind the mask of table-setting and finger-wagging. We wanted to tell a story about a mother who feels closer to the mxthers we may be one day; one whose stories from childhood to adulthood swell with turbulence, apprehension, and doubt. 

We asked ourselves, if we were to write a letter to our future child today, what would it sound like? And we started there. 

The topics explored in our point-and-click narrative adventure game are childhood, coming out and rejection, depression and isolation, and finally, the finding of one's own home/community.  

We hope you enjoy our game, and huge thanks to Side Quest + Sledgehammer’s Women in Games Game Jam for inspiring us to bring this story to life!