Photographer's Hike

Desktop version is highly recommended. Please find the downloads at the bottom of this page.

Made by UHS Game Development Club in 2023

Developed over the course of 8 months

Please find Windows, MacOS, and Linux downloads below this description

Note: Most text prompts and dialog reflect the default key mappings

Credits:

Nick Vatanshenas (0megq)

- Club President

- Programming Head

- Lead Developer

- Level, Mechanic, and World Design

- Tile Art

- Yeti Art

- Pictures and Title Screen Art

- Base Camp and Snowy Tundra Background Art

- UI Art

- Cougar, Yeti, and Old Man Sounds

- Music

Arman Akhtari

- Art Head

- Initial Game Vision

- Player Animations and Art

- Cougar Animations and Art

- Dense and Sparse Forest Background Art

Miryam Greenstein

- Club Vice President

- Sound Head

- Educating the team on Sound Design and Creation

Nguyen Do

- Game Design Head

- Educating the team on Game Design

William Jenkins

- Trees in the Dense and Sparse Forest Background Art

Andrew Fu

- Implementing Cougar Animations

- Finding and editing stock sounds from pixabay.com

Juliet Kozlov

- Wind Sound

- Great Communicator

- Picture Sound

Dylan Mac

- Dialog System Groundwork

Ajay Sathish Preetha

- Menu System Groundwork

- Settings Menu Groundwork

- Pause Menu Groundwork

- Keybinding Groundwork

Jun Choi

- Former Club President

- Former Game Design Head

Playtesting

Playtesters provided feedback and ideas many of which are now a part of the game

1st Round of Playtesters

- Anirudh Sunkad

- Linda Khalfa

- Chase Morse

2nd Round of Playtesters

- Anirudh Sunkad

- Linda Khalfa

- Chase Morse

- Cody Cascalla

- Connor Mursalo

- Edward Li

- Caden Lee (Speedrun Timer)

3rd Round of Playtesters

- Anirudh Sunkad

- Linda Khalfa

- Chase Morse

- Cody Cascalla

- Connor Mursalo

- Edward Li

- Caden Lee

- Nguyen Do

- Iris Dou

- Winston Zhou

- Eric Li

- Juliet Kozlov

- Alec Apelian (Camera Film Roll Secrets)

- Alexis Joystick

- George Matta

- Arman Akhtari

- Miryam Greenstein

- Neeraj Bhuvaneshwaran

- Armia Asgari

- Sly Moaleji

- Agam Randhawa

Current Board Members

- President and Programming Head: Nick Vatanshenas

- Vice President and Sound Head: Miryam Greenstein

- Art Head: Arman Akhtari

- Game Design Head: Nguyen Do

- Secretary: Cody Cascalla

- Publicist: Minerva You

- Treasuer: Neeraj Bhuvaneshwaran

Special thanks to Mr. Frat our club advisor, who provided us a space to meet during the development of the game.

Sounds generated from sfxr.me

- Player jump, respawn, and death sounds

- Yeti punch sound

Stock sounds from pixabay.com

- Player run sounds

- Player land sound

- Picture taking sound

Game inspired by Celeste, A Short Hike, and Pokémon Snap™