Banana Split

This banana has been tragically sliced in half!  Puzzle your way through an abandoned jungle laboratory in order to reunite the halves of this unfortunate fruit.

Animated gif of the top half of a banana poking to the left with it's pointer finger, as if to push a light switch.

About the project

Banana Split was made in two weeks for a prototyping class.  I was an artist on my team of five; the other members were Mitchell Young, Anna Miller, Thomas Revord, and Oliver Creighton.  Banana Split is a humorous puzzle game featuring a split banana drawn in a cartoony, Cuphead-inspired art style.

On this project, I was in charge of character design and animation as well as some of the tilemap sprites.

A cartoony banana character.

Character Animations

Animated gif of the top half of a banana blinking every few seconds.
Top half idle
Animated gif of the top half of a banana climbing an invisible vine.
Top half climbing
Animated gif of the top half of a banana dragging itself horizontally with its hands.
Top half crawling
Animated gif of the top half of a banana dying. It's eyes turn into "X'"s and wiggle.
Top half death

In the game, the player controls the top half of the banana with WASD and the bottom half of the banana with the arrow keys.  These two halves have different ways of interacting with the environment; the top half can push buttons and climb vines, and the bottom half can move boxes and jump.  As a result, I created several different animations for both halves to provide the correct feedback to the player.  I was in charge of all character animations in this project.

Animated gif of the bottom half of a banana scuffing it's foot at the ground every few seconds.
Bottom half idle
Animated gif of the bottom half of a banana jumping in place.
Bottom half jump
Animated gif of the bottom half of a banana walking.
Bottom half walking
Animated gif of the bottom half of a banana dying. It falls over and bounces on the ground.
Botttom half death

Tile Sprites

A tile sprite of a laboratory wall covered with vines.
A tile sprite of a laboratory wall covered with vines and rustl
A tile sprite of a laboratory wall covered with vines, leaves, and some rust.
A tile sprite of a laboratory floor covered with vines, leaves, and some rust.
A tile sprite of a laboratory floor covered with vines.
A tile sprite of a laboratory floor covered with vines and leaves.
A tile sprite of a laboratory floor covered with vines and rustl
A tile sprite of the top of an acid pit.
A tile sprite of the bottom of an acid pit.

The specific tiles I created are the midground wall and floor tiles, as well as the acid tiles, pictured individually on the left.  I also decorated the background of the tutorial and level one (pictured right) using some of the beautiful foliage sprites that Anna Miller created.

The final merge animation

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