The Goops is a 2d video game that Logan Cox and I created using the Unity Game Engine. We worked on this project for our DNID class, CMPINF 1201. The goal was to create a 2d video game in Unity, using a public domain childrens' book as inspiration. We chose Gelett Burgess' book titled MORE GOOPS and How Not to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Impolite Infants, which is where the name Goops comes from. The book is a sequence of poems about ill-mannered children, called “Goops” that do misdeeds, and the overall narrative is essentially making any children reading it self-conscious for their misdeeds, encouraging them to “reform” (Burgess 1903).

Our game takes inspiration from this concept, with the player taking the role of a babysitter who must watch over a house full of Goops, whilst they all attempt to do dangerous misdeeds. The main gameplay comes from the clicking and dragging on the Goops to stop them and move them away from any misdeeds they are committing, each of which utilize various common, household objects. If a Goop does a misdeed for a certain amount of time without being interrupted by the player, the Goop perishes, as each misdeed is dangerous. After coming up with this idea, Logan and I began work on implementing it.

Logan started right away on creating the art assets, including the Goop sprites and the many animations present in the final game. We did use an asset pack from Itchio for the house interior pixel art. He also coded the main menu and the intro end ending dialogue cutscenes. I worked on programming the main game mechanics logic. This experience was exhilerating, as I was not too versed in Unity's AP, yet I had to keep going to complete the game before the deadline.

I ended up learning a crazy ton of Unity and for the first time felt capable of creating any 2d game I could imagine. Fully immersing myself into Unity improved my fluency in it.

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