Gesundheit! is an independently made PC game in which you help an allergic pig save a city from evil snot-eating monsters. With hand drawn graphics and an original recorded soundtrack, Gesundheit! is a retro-action-puzzle game, and was selected for the Independent Games Festival at Game Developers Conference 2008. This is an (eternally!) ongoing project for me, but here’s a 12-level demo.

Download Demo (Windows, 36 MB)

Made using AGS. Windows only.

I designed most of the game in my sketchbook on the bus. Taking public transit is about the most productive thing I’ve ever done. If you’re curious about this development stuff, I wrote an article about it for Game Developer.

The art of this game was mostly hand drawn into homemade plastic scratchboard and then scanned and animated on the computer. I started out using Anim8or for the puppet animation, but now I normally just do it all in After Effects.

I recorded the music in my basement after re-learning my grade one kazoo and recorder skills.