Let's Get the Band Together!

Let’s Get the Band Together! is a game about unraveling messy relationship drama with melodramatic high stakes. When you’re only twenty-one, the campus’s Battle of the Bands does feel like your entire world.

If anything, our game development team loves drama, so we quickly settled on having our protagonist uncover the relationship drama of a group. We aimed to replicate the feeling of piecing together a scandalous friend group explosion through clues like text receipts and Instagram stories—but through physical locations and objects in the game.

However, we still wanted an upbeat feel-good game. To keep the game comedic, we exaggerated our characters and gave everyone a happy ending. The unserious tone mitigates any suspense around a potential bad ending, but the fun lies in the journey to the end.

Since our focus was on story with simple puzzles, we decided on a robust game engine with several built-in mechanics and assets–RPG Maker. This choice enabled us to tell the complete narrative and focus on the assets we did want to be custom. 

We hope that the player grows to love the characters and their messy story as much as we enjoyed crafting them.