Bread and Roses

Bread and Roses was made by mostly National Film and Television School students for the Games Transformed | Love Games, Hate Capitalism 2023 game jam. The theme was "collective action".

Description:

Bread and Roses is a series of short games which explore the idea of collective action.

Controls:

Created for an arcade machine with 6 buttons and an 8-way joystick.

Playable with Xbox controller (A,B,X,Y,LB,RB, Left Joystick)  and mouse&keyboard (H,J,K,U,I,O, Arrow Keys). 

Credits:

Concepts by Harvey Hayman, Holly Hudson, Ilena Pegan and Luc Foster

Game Design, Development and Unity Integration by Harvey Hayman

Art Direction and Unity Integration by Holly Hudson

2D Backgrounds by Alexandra Roddan, Holly Hudson and Ilena Pegan

3D Assets by Holly Hudson, Ilena Pegan and Luc Foster

Logo and Wordmark by Amelia Leuzzi at Double Slice

Sound Design by Lucas Lehmann

Music by Carrie Penn and Diogo Chaves

The slogan, "Bread and Roses" originated from a speech by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd. This inspired the title of the poem Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim, for which the lyrics are adapted and sung in this game. The orchestration is based on Judy Collin's version of the song.

Special thanks to Bart Bazaz for initial ideas and Nicholas Gurewitch’s Perry Bible Fellowship comic strip for The Bunny Pit (https://pbfcomics.com/comics/bunny-pit/) and the National Film and Television School.

Third Party Assets:

People from ‘Polyperfect Low Poly Animated People’

Bunnies from ‘Polyperfect Low Poly Animated Animals’

Wiggly text from ‘Febucci Text Animator’

Controller support from ‘Rewired’

Steam effects from ‘Dreamscape Nature : Meadows : Stylized Open World Environment’

Character inverse kinematics from ‘Rootmotion FinalIK’

Flat shader from ‘Flat Kit’