Keeping Up With The Joneses

NOTE: GAME REQUIRES TWO CONTROLLERS

LessThan12BD is a plucky team of jammers hailing from San Diego, California. We joined forces during San Diego Game Jam 2018 to create digital magic and eat pizza! 

Byron Beasley - Musician extraordinaire!

Daniel Jooryabi - Is one with the code

Steve Meim - Team gopher/mascot

Jack Melcher - Makes shit happen

Jacob Travis - Makes it all look GOOOOOOOOD

The Theme for the Event: "We Did Everything Adults Would Do, What Went Wrong?" (Must be either Puzzle, Trading or Construction)

Title of Game: Keeping Up With the Joneses

Summary: Brothers Templeton and Rizzo Jones follow in the treasure-hunting footsteps of their great grandfather (Indiana Jones) as they explore the American't Islands to find the long lost Fortune of Promesas Falsas*. 

Keeping Up With The Joneses is a commentary on how children will blindly follow the tracks of their parents, particularly in materialistic pursuits. The  cycle of obtaining money, spending money, and working harder to get more money and then spending more money is passed on from generation to generation and has become such an ingrained habit that nobody realizes that they are stuck in the Rat Race both figuratively and literally*. In terms of the theme... kids naturally will model their lives after that of their parents. If the parents exhibit poor financial habits, naturally the kids will follow no matter how well-intentioned the parents are. Keeping up with the Joneses indeed in a race to the a (financial) Temple of Doom

*Spanish for False Promises

**Inside Scoop: 

-Templeton and Rizzound are names of two infamous Hollywood rats. 

-Templeton is from Charlotte's Web 

-Rizzo is the rat from the Muppets. Also, "Rizzound" is a play on words referring to "Short Round" from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

-American't Islands = opposite of the United States of America (see what I did there???)

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