Bed Bugs

ABOUT

Our game Bed Bugs was created for the course Critical Making from the Master's in Game Design at Uppsala University, under our second topic, Gender, and under the subtopic/gender concept, Reparative Game Design.

"Reparative game design is a method to work through difficult feelings, but it is also a means to stay in them as long as they need to be felt. Sometimes the work is to bring out difficult feelings. Sometimes the work is to make yourself and others feel worse. Reparative art, like reparative reading, does not seek to expose wounds, but to focus on healing--the many states that need healing and the many forms that healing takes, including the “negative,” the difficult, the unwanted." (Stone, 2018)  

The tone we used was silly + celebration and the game itself follows four teenage girl-bugs at a sleepover, narrating stories together and introducing their own chapters and minigames, where they make themselves the protagonist of the adventure, but are also empowered and embracd by the other bugs. We wanted to celebrate girlhood and femininity through a story that shows mostly non-normative personalities in girls and women. 

TEAM

• Angela Prim Liu
• Clara Bohnsack
• Evi Sotiriou
• Oriol Viu Duran
• Thanursan Mahesan

EXTERNAL ASSETS

Fonts:

• Super Unicorn Regular by fsuarez913
• Sunny Regular by Jizeru

Sounds from freesound.org:

• Blinking Forest [Acoustic] by NearTheAtmoshphere
• cannon by Kneeling
• Creature2 by jessepash
  
• Creature4 by jessepash
• Fabric_Foley_1 by Mediasaur
• Footstep_Run_HardSurface_7 by nicholasdaryl
• FX_Ricochet by ForTheHorde68
• Glass Bottle Breaking by IENBA
• gunshot 3 by MrGungus
• gunshot 4 by MrGungus
• gunshot 5 by MrGungus
• harpsicord_dream-enter2 by zerolagtime
• harpsicord_dream-leave2 by zerolagtime
• Ice Shimmer by Corruptinator
• Late Summer bugs with Barred Owl_Sept_2024 SW Michigan by EvolEsurb
• OceanWaves by darren1979
• Rocks Thrown in Water by Kraftaggregat
• SFX Player Action: Phone Pick Up by trullilulli
• SNORING by studiogreenhill

Sounds from opengameart.org:

• Happy Lullaby (song17) by cynicmusic
• Medieval: The Old Tower Inn by RandomMind
• Tequila Starter by Dan Knoflicek
• Town Theme RPG by cynicmusic