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Up in the Air
Team: Studio Jiggly
Welcome to Weenie World!
Play as a balloon dog and have fun exploring this demented carnival, which is populated by crazy children.
Up in the Air is a zany, open-world game that inspires exploration and fun. Use a variety of power ups— from water balloons to ground pound— to fend off kids and collect carnival tickets. You can burn Big Weenie, knock over a castle, trap children in a cardboard jail, master hopscotch, become radioactive, turn off the sun, or get popped by a cactus. If you are particularly unlucky, you could even find the notorious child Chunkles and his gaping maw.
Up in the Air was made over seven months between June and December 2017. The team started designing their game mechanics by asking the question,“ What do balloons do?”, and then rapidly prototyping as many answers to that question as possible. They took the funniest prototypes and crafted Up in the Air around them, focusing on keeping the experience funny, open, and cartoonish.
Up in the Air was awarded third place for Best Gameplay at the Intel University Games Showcase during the 2018 Game Developers Conference.
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