Pencil Pushers

 "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.

Best Overall Game 1st Place @ Level Up Showcase 2024
- Awarded by Ubisoft -

Best Presentation Runner-up @ Canadian National Exhibition 2024
Gaming Garage Student Game Showcase

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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’.”

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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.io
 Antonio  UI & Gameplay Programmer/ Level Designer  GitHub | Email
 Leo  Cinematic Programmer  LinkedIn | GitHub | Email

Music Team:
 Ashlene Sereda  Composer/ Sound Designer  LinkedIn | 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
 Nick Chi Ho Lin  UI Graphic Designer  LinkedIn | Twitter

Special Thanks:
Ada Cheung, Crisvette Lorenzo, Kiki Ha, Nicholas Ng, Sager Mayabhai Rudach, Saurik Sharma, YaTing Lei, YuLun Tseng

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