The Rotating Ball Game is a vertical-scrolling platformer game featuring a core mechanic of a smaller ball jumping and interacting with larger rotating balls.

It was created in August 2023, during a game jam in a team of three: Chenzhe Mo, Xiangmeng Lv, and me. It is a game that aims for creativity and explores the limitations of platformer games. During the collaboration, I served mainly as the planner and level designer.

The theme for the part of the game our team developed is the Universe, in which the small ball acts as a neutron star while the big balls act as planets. In the game, the neutron star needs to rotate around the planets to fly higher while keeping its size from getting too big or too small.

There could be many other themes that differ in mechanics and gameplay. Ideally, it can become one of the offline mobile games that involve a variety of themes and gameplays like Cut the Rope or Plants vs. Zombies. The only thing that does not change about the game is “big balls as platforms and small balls as the player”, while the gameplay varies depending on the themes when the big ball and small ball represent different things.