Wulver Game

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Wulver is a game about a friendly anthropomorphic wolf who lives in a cave and helps the people of Scotland with their mythical creature problems. A 2D, top-down, role-playing adventure game with stylized, hand drawn graphics, and a narrative that helps teach players Gaelic and some Scottish folklore and mythology. It was the Overall Winner of the 2021 Kilted Otter Game Jam focused on exploring Scottish heritage, culture, and language.

I was the only designer on a team of four. Developed the concept for the game, assisted with art direction, designed the level and quests, selected and edited the music for the game, created blend trees for sprite animations and wrote some C# to connect the animations to the scripts.

This was a two month game jam but because most of us were in school at the time, we only worked on it for a few hours each weekend. We also had two teammates quit after the first couple weeks and were only able to replace one of them in the last couple weeks of the jam.

Platform: Windows & Web | Engine: Unity | Play on Itch.io

3D Bistro Scene: Text

Wulver Title Screen

Simple title screen with "Start" and "Quit" buttons.

Wulver Gaelic Language Setting

The game gives people the option to change their language to Gaelic so they can see how the descriptions in-game are translated.

Wulver Cave Home

You can interact with the Wulver's cave to save the game or heal yourself. If you change the language to Gaelic, you can see here how it updates descriptions.

Wulver Select Translations

Objects you can interact with, like the berries you can eat to regain health, show their Gaelic translation above.

Wulver NPCs

The game has two NPCs you can interact with to receive quests.

Wulver Quests

The villager asks for help finding food and the Selkie asks for help finding her sealskin.

Wulver Fishing

You can complete the villager's quest by collecting a fish and bringing it back to him. This is something Wulver's are known for doing for the starving people of Scotland in folklore.

Wulver Combat

To complete the Selkie's quest, you'll need to explore the map and fight some very agressive hares to find and collect her sealskin.