What Makes Us is a children’s puzzle game themed around emotions. It was made as a first year group project for university.

Team Members

Kian - Programmer and 3D animator, created Fear, Anger and Envy levels.

Vic - 3D Environment and character artist, including concept art.

Elliot - Programmer, created Happiness and Sadness levels.

Emily - 2D and 3D character artist.

Laëtitia - 3D and 2D artist, created team portraits in the credits.

Harley - Level and UI designer and administration.

Abi - Level design.

Ethan - Design elements.

3rd Party Assets Music

SFX

Blender Foundation - Grass Foot Step Sounds (Yo Frankie!) (CC-BY 3.0)
Cartoon character vocalisation, high pitched grunt, as if lifting or pushing something heavy or struggling 2 (ZapSplat Standard License)
tim.kahn - transport 2.wav (CC BY 3.0)
Cartoon punch 1 (ZapSplat Standard License)
Cartoon high pitched laugh 14 (ZapSplat Standard License)
Small cartoon character high pitched voice fight vocalisation 16 (ZapSplat Standard License)
Cartoon character talking gibberish, slightly worried or scared tone (ZapSplat Standard License)
InspectorJ - Dropping Wood on a Pile » Dropping, Wood, F.wav (CC BY 3.0)
Cartoon high pitched laugh, smug 3 (ZapSplat Standard License)
Cartoon character, high pitched, says whoopie 2 (ZapSplat Standard License)
Samulis - Foley » Footstep on Stone (CC0 1.0)
Button click, fast, plastic (ZapSplat Standard License)
Cartoon witches cackle, laugh 1 (ZapSplat Standard License)
Metal farm gate lever lock movement 4 (ZapSplat Standard License)
Cartoon robot, delayed beeps with reverb (ZapSplat Standard License)
Cartoon character, high pitched vocalisation, ouch or ohh as if sudden pain 2 (ZapSplat Standard License)
Michel Baradari - Rumble/explosion (CC-BY 3.0)
Cartoon, water plop, drip 6 (ZapSplat Standard License)
Fist punch water splash (ZapSplat Standard License)
Broken squeaky toy squeeze hard, strange squeak 3 (ZapSplat Standard License)
Top loader washing machine drain, gurgle (ZapSplat Standard License)
jspath1 - Two Metals Steps.wav (CC Sampling Plus 1.0)

What Makes Us screenshots