Ocean Breeze is a game powered by the use of a Makey-Makey card.
This tool allows us to easily build custom controllers that use simple on and off switches.
I came up with the concept of using a hand fan to displace real-life sails and transform that input into game instructions. The boat in Ocean Breeze is therefore controlled fully with a real life set of sails and a hand fan.
Ocean Breeze does not play with a controller or keyboard at all, and can't be played without the appropriate controller - it was not designed to be a commercial project.
Ocean Breeze was made by a team of 5 game designers, that had to each hold many different roles during production.
As it was a passion project of mine, I was extremely implicated in Ocean Breeze.
During my time working on the game, in addition to being the original concept creator and design lead, I worked as main character artist and animator, secondary programmer, secondary environment artist, and shader artist.
While it is not the intended way to play the game, you can play a version of the game for free that is completely playable with a keyboard!
