Green Mike's Bootlegs

Apr 30, 2026

Find the correct video tapes!

You’re stranded on earth without any money! Luckily, aliens abroad LOVE human cinema, and they’re willing to pay you to send them video tapes. Earn enough money this way, and you can fly home!

…Just watch out for the Crop Circle Club members, who heard there might be one of them spacemen working at the local video store.

About

This game was an experiment to try and do full motion capture during Ludum Dare, and learn how to use O3DE's Motion Matching gem. The alien's animations were captured using Freemocap, with my 4 year old nephew as the actor. We actually managed to complete like 90% of what's in the game within the 72 hour jam window, but the game wasn't winnable; it was all mechanics but no game. So, we decided to switch to the "Extra" category and spend more time to polish and finish it.

In addition to motion matching, I wanted to use it as an opportunity to ship a feature I've been working on for another game project which allows you to render interactive prefabs into a UI sprite, and try combining it with LyShine's render-to-texture feature... So basically, I'm rendering an entire UI canvas to a texture (to create the box covers), mapping that texture onto a mesh, rendering that mesh into an offscreen render target, and finally rendering that into a UI sprite on a second UI canvas.

On top of that, I also wanted to play around a bit with implementing a unique telekinesis feature that doesn't just feel like a generic third person shooter. That part doesn't seem to have been well-received by some players, but I think it was worth experimenting anyways. That's what I find fun about game jams.

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© Alejandro Ramallo 2026