Nutscue

Nutscue: Climb, Collect, Capture! 🌰

Nutscue is a cute platformer that challenges you to guide a mother squirrel up a giant tree in search of nuts and to safely rescue her newborn. Face predators, evade obstacles, and collect as many nuts as you can on your way up. Your score depends on how well you navigate the challenges and collect nuts along the way.

Core Features

• Vertical Platforming Adventure: Scale a massive tree while collecting nuts, avoiding hazards, and confronting enemies.
• Dynamic Power-Ups: Bomb Nut clears obstacles, Heart Nut restores health, and Slow Nut slows down time for precision moves.
• Checkpoints: Strategically placed respawn points ensure you can keep progressing without frustration.
• Creative Level Design: Handcrafted segments with breakable platforms, jumping mushrooms, and hidden secrets keep the gameplay fresh and engaging

About the Game

Set in a magical forest, Nutscue tells the story of a mother squirrel protecting her family from predators. From the lower branches to the treetop, you’ll navigate increasingly challenging terrain, face unique enemies, and collect power-ups to secure your survival. The game's dynamic level progression ensures an engaging and action-packed experience. 

The game was made with several requirements:

• Must be made for 8 to 10 year olds
• Made over the course of 2 weeks
• Can only use two buttons for gameplay
• Must be forest themed
• Must be designed with accessibility in mind

About the Team

Nutscue is brought to you by a talented and diverse team of designers, programmers, artists, and animators from FutureGames. We combined our skills to create an engaging, high-score challenge that’s easy to pick up but hard to master.  Our group was a random assigned formation.

Team Members & Roles

Name Daniel Karlberg Jesper Turesson David Runnding Zonghao Wu Venessa Sjölin Yulia Fedorova Chloé Persson Leou Xia Milo Frenell Shengan Peng John Andersson Indra Bowen-Paoli Jovan Ivanovic Wera Skoglund	Roles Project Owner, Designer VFX Artist Designer Designer Programmer Artist Artist Programmer Programmer Animator Designer Programmer Animator Artist

Credits

• Music and Sound Effects: Sources include Freesound.org and other free-to-use resources.
• Assets: A mix of hand-designed visuals and free resources customized to bring the magical forest to life.
•  Christmas Trees Pattern by Gamze Genc Celik from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)

Play Nutscue now! 🌰