The Ghastleybriar Zoo Incident

Team: Battle Squirrel Galactica
Theme: Animal Capture
Genre: Third Person Action/Adventure
Engine: Half-Life 2
Cohort: Cohort 08, July '08

The Ghastleybriar Zoo Incident is a third-person action platformer developed in Source by team Battle Squirrel Galactica over a period of six months. The game depicts the epic struggle of Edward Mump, zookeeper, as he attempts to return the Ghastleybriar Zoo to its former state. Armed with only his trusty sack, Mump scours the zoo for bizarre critters to recapture. During his quest, he encounters cowardly Oddbobs, mischievous Grummies, and furious Rumpuses on the way to a climactic encounter with the terrifying Umbuggler.

In developing this game, our team strove to create a very unique personality influenced by the works of Edward Gorey and expressed through characters, environments, gameplay, and dialog. To this end, we used a cartoonish, exaggerated art style with a sepia shader that recreates the look of a silent film.

With The Ghastleybriar Zoo Incident, our team has created a fun and unique title that’s bound to be a great experience for gamers of all types.

Battle Squirrel Galactica is: Mark Brady, Brad Jacobs, Robert Lee, Christopher Skelton, Eric Bakutis, Matthew Taylor, Brent Ellison, Chetan Bedi, Christian Syyap, Paul Loyd, Jeremy Raymond, Daniel Bedoy, Michael Aviles, Jessica Nida