Rake Finland Great Again

My Role:
Design, Programming, Organizing

Time Frame:
~2 weekends
November 2018

The Story

In November 2018, there was a social media trend of Finns taking pictures of themselves raking their forests.

I drew inspiration and decided to make a game. Given that social media trends can be short-lived, I knew that I had to act quickly.
Fortunately, I had a network of a few friends from the game jam scene, therefore experienced in making a game in a weekend, who got excited about the idea when I suggested it.

We managed to put together code, graphics and audio and publish the game to Google Play in around two weeks. Surfing on the social media trend worked surprising well: After getting featured on the Finnish “MTV Uutiset” news website (Link), our game ended up getting featured in the evening news (Kymmenen Uutiset) for a highly entertaining five minutes of fame.