Sumo Strikers was made in 5 weeks as part of the 2024 Games Fleadh competition, held in TUS university competing against people from all over Ireland. This is a 3D, top down, party game of up to 4 players, with the goal of using power-ups to push your friends off platforms until there's only one left standing. The jam theme was "start with nothing" and in this game, the players began with no abilities, gaining stronger ones over time and also grew larger with each round win.
This game was made by me and my friends; Dylan, George and Daniel. There are 5 unique maps in this game, each with varying environment elements to make the movement and combat different every time. We made practically everything ourselves, keeping gameplay simple but focusing more on fun gameplay. Creating all of this in such a short span of time helped keep the scope small, so that there was more time to focus on polishing the gameplay that mattered.
Sumo Strikers won the top prize for the Games Fleadh 2024 competition in the category for "Best Game Built Using a Game Engine". The game received positive feedback from all the groups that played it because of its fast paced gameplay andÂ