Wulver Game

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Based on Scottish folklore, 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. It is 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, which focused on exploring Scottish heritage, culture, and language.

As the only designer on a team of four, I developed the game's concept, mechanics, and systems; assisted with art direction; designed the level and quests; selected and edited the music; created blend trees for sprite animations; and wrote some scripts (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. Two members of the team quit after the first couple of weeks, and we were only able to replace one of them in the last couple of weeks of the jam.

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

Information

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.