This project started out of a desire to bring a mobile game to the iOS App Store. I made up one of a team of 3 programmers and 3 artists that were also all working full time in the game industry and wanted to get a side project going. One of us had an initial idea for a suite of mini games where you would help a main character take care of his hygiene. A bunch of mini games were planned having to do with different areas of his body. We started with the mouth and began implementing the gameplay. As time progressed, we realized we would have needed to be full time on the project to make the rest of the mini games, so we reduced scope to allow us a realistic chance at finishing the project. The other mini games were cut and the whole game was built around the mouth game and titled "Mouth of Madness". Your job is to protect your teeth from all the cavities and germs you may find in the typical mouth, if that mouth was in a world straight out of Ren and Stimpy crossed with Garbage Pail Kids. The project was built using the Cocos2d-x cross platform library in C++ and completed over nights and weekends about a year and a half after we started. In addition to writing code and doing a bit of game design, I also took on the role of sound designer. I stepped quite a bit outside of my comfort zone and recoreded, sampled, and mixed most of the sound effects for this game. The game was released on August 13th, 2013 and has since received more than 100,000 downloads. The game was also featured in coverage from Pocket Gamer.
NOTE: This game is now unavialable in the App Store. However, a Windows port is now available:
Mouth of Madness for Windows .msi installer (59MB)
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