"Escape the office,
embrace the magic!"
Pencil Pushers is a single player 3D puzzle based platformer game where the player controls Woody, a magical pencil, through his mundane office to help him quit his job. The player needs to make use of Woody’s magical ability to bring words to life to help Woody manoeuvre through office obstacles and avoid spiders to finally escape his office and make it outside.
Story

"Spell your way to freedom with Woody!"
After many hard years of work at SpiderCo. “pushing papers”, Woody, a lively and adventurous pencil with a knack for magic, has grown tired of his mundane office life. Woody longs for freedom and the chance to experience the outside world. Little does he know, the entire office is determined to keep him from leaving. Unfortunately, as a small pencil, it's not that easy to leave such a big office. In this game, use Woody’s magical powers to bring words to life and aid him on his quest to break out of the SpiderCo. office so that he can, finally, complete his goal of being able to ‘touch grass’.”
Team

It was a Video Game Design collaboration between UofT Computer Science, UofT Music, Centennial College Game-Art and Centennial College Animation. The team members were coming from everywhere.
Computer Science Team:
Ryan Blasetti Team Lead/ Level Design LinkedIn | GitHub | Email
Sky Technical Programmer Twitter | GitHub | itch.to
Antonio UI & Gameplay Programmer/ Level Designer GitHub | Email
Leo Cinematic Programmer LinkedIn | GitHub | Email
Music Team:
Ashlene Sereda Composer/ Sound Designer Email
Lily Lee Composer/ Sound Designer LinkedIn | Email
Game-Art and Animation Team:
Isaac Chan Team Lead/ Producer LinkedIn | Portfolio | Email
Sunwoo Kwon Art Director/ Concept Artist Portfolio | Email
Somi Jeon Lead Modeler Email
Irishi K Krishna Modeler/ Poster Designer LinkedIn | Portfolio | Email
Prarthen Shah Principal Animator LinkedIn | Email
Reznel Legaspi Rigger Email
Special Thanks:
Kiki Ha, Nick Chi Ho Lin, Sager Mayabhai Rudach, Saurik Sharma, YaTing Lei, YuLun Tseng
Status | In development |
Platforms | Windows |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings) |
Author | Lowsun |
Genre | Role Playing, Puzzle |
Tags | ascii, Cute, Cyberpunk, Minimalist, Monsters, Pixel Art, Roguelike, Turn-Based Combat |