![]() Octodad’s inner struggle makes him an endearing character, and helps connect him with players. His insecurity lies in hoping others never find out what he truly is, especially his loving, idyllic human family. Octodad passes as human by acting as ‘normal’ as possible. The team agreed that it would be funnier if nobody realized that Octodad was an octopus, and that he would have to maintain his disguise in public. Our team was made of funny people, so playing the idea for comedy made sense to us. John Murphy, Seth Parker, and Nick Esparza brought this to the team as a pitch, “What would it be like to control another person’s movement in minutiae?” As we chewed on the idea, it changed from a person inside another person’s head to an octopus inside a robotic suit, and finally to just an octopus wearing a suit. Space Marines, 2D Platformers, Fantasy themes, etc.).īeing John Malkovich is an interesting film for multiple reasons, but the part we were most interested in was existing within someone else’s mind and controlling their actions. Because the festival has a preference for unique and unheard of ideas, we made sure to steer clear of common video game tropes (i.e. Our goal was to enter a game into the Independent Games Festival (IGF) Student Competition at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). When anyone hears about Octodad, the first thing they ask is, “How did you come up with this crazy idea?” We’d like to say we’re creative enough to just pop out crazy ideas all the time, but the truth is that we had a very formal process of pitching ideas, repitching, starting over, and creating experimental prototypes. Eight of the original team members would go on to form our studio Young Horses. The original Octodad was created at DePaul University in Chicago in 2010 by eighteen students, overseen by faculty advisors Patrick Curry and Scott Roberts. Octodad's existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodous nature a secret from his human family. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about his life. Octodad: Dadliest Catch is the sequel to Octodad, a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. If you're just interested in the stats we have those in a handy infographic here.
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