BUBBLEGRAM

ESCAPE THE ECHO CHAMBER

PLAY

ROLE

Design and art

PERIOD

2025

JAM

Global Game Jam

SOFTWARE

Illustrator, Photoshop

BUBBLEGRAM and the Global Game Jam

"BUBBLEGRAM" is a 2D Casual game made for the 2025 Global Game Jam (GGJ) in the ExOf site (Argentina).
The team was only 2 people: David T. Marchand (programmer) and me. We took the music from Kevin “Incompetech” McLeod website.
The Jam last only 3 days and the game is uploaded in the Itch.io platform.

This year's theme was "Bubble" and we took it as a metaphor for the phenomenon of social media isolation, the "echo chamber", where users end up thanks to the violence of the algorithm (in this case, Instagram's algorithm).
The story follows a boy who has to find a publication from his best friend (which would be dedicated to him) before time is out.
The mission is difficult due to the number of ads, bugs, and malicious bots that this guy encounters on his way.

How to capture the idea?

We thought about something as an Auto-scroller game, where the main character can only move to the right (foward).
He could be always inside his own bubble, thying to avoid /attack /get other bubbles.

So, we count with different bubble types, which we explain in both, Static and "Step by step" Tutorial.