Roll
Navigate the city using momentum-driven three-dimensional movement.
Game Jam Project · 2020
Donut Rampage
Begin as a harmless little donut and consume enough dough to become an unstoppable city-destroying catastrophe.
Project Overview
Roll.
Grow.
Devour everything.
Donut Rampage is a comedic arcade destruction game created by a three-person team for Weekly Game Jam 153.
The jam’s “Roll” theme became a physics-driven donut that grows by collecting dough and crushing objects throughout a low-poly city.
Each growth stage increases the donut’s destructive power, eventually transforming a vulnerable pastry into an apocalyptic threat capable of destroying the entire environment.
- My Role
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Game Design,
Movement and Level Design - Engine
- Unity
- Platforms
- Windows and WebGL
- Team
- Three Developers
- Development
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Weekly Game Jam 153
Prototype · 2020
Design Concept
The “Roll” theme became a game about physical movement, rapid growth and escalating destruction.
The player begins small enough to be threatened by pedestrians and vehicles, making early movement focused on survival and collecting dough.
As the donut grows, the relationship with the city reverses. Objects that were initially dangerous become destructible opportunities for points and further progression.
Core Player Loop
Collect
Gather scattered dough and destroy suitable targets to increase in size.
Grow
Reach new stages that increase the donut’s power and available targets.
Destroy
Crush cars, people and buildings to achieve the highest score before time runs out.
Growth Progression
Seven stages transform the player from a vulnerable plain donut into a threat capable of destroying everything.
Plain
Vulnerable to people and cars.
Glazed
Bounces away from cars.
Chocolate
Crushes people and vehicles.
White Chocolate
Destroys smaller buildings.
Sprinkles
Destroys medium-sized buildings.
Raisins
Destroys the city’s largest buildings.
Hot Sauce
Destroys everything in its path.
My Contribution
My work focused on shaping the game’s progression, rolling movement and destructible city layout.
Collaborative Game Design
Rolling Mechanics
Movement Concepts
Level Design
City Layout
Progression Design
Created alongside MuFake and Machine Gun Skelly.
Development Challenge
Donut Rampage was my first complete 3D game project after previously working primarily in two dimensions.
Moving into 3D required a new understanding of spatial level design, camera behaviour, physics and movement across three axes.
The rolling mechanic also needed to remain controllable as the donut changed size and interacted with objects of increasingly different scales.
Completing the prototype within the game-jam timeframe provided valuable experience with rapid 3D development.
Game Gallery
A Growing
Catastrophe
Gameplay footage and screenshots showing the donut’s progression from a vulnerable pastry to a city-destroying nightmare.
Future Direction
Donut Rampage remains one of the projects I would like to revisit as a more complete mobile game.
A future version would rebuild the movement and underlying code, improve the destruction systems and expand the progression beyond the original game-jam scope.
Additional customisation would allow players to personalise their donut while preserving the accessible arcade loop and escalating destruction.
I remain proud of what the team accomplished within the limited timeframe, particularly as my first experience creating a complete 3D project.
Play Donut Rampage on itch.io