Pole Pals

🎮 About the Game

Pole Pals is a two-player cooperative puzzle game that challenges your coordination, logic, and understanding of real-world magnetism.

Play as two forgotten worker robots reactivated decades after a human exodus. Trapped in a massive futuristic complex operated entirely by machines, you must collaborate, navigate magnet-powered machines, and uncover the mysteries left behind.

Core Features:

• 🧲 Realistic magnetic polarity system: push and pull your way through physics-based puzzles.
• 🤝 Local 2-player co-op (keyboard & controller supported).
• 🧩 Challenging level design combining logic, timing, and teamwork.
• 🤖 Story-driven environments with narrative set dressing and stylized visuals.
• 🎭 Dynamic emotions & character interaction, revealed through gameplay and sound design.

🕹️ How to Play

• Recommended with two players and gamepads.
• Controls are introduced through interactive tutorial levels.
• If playing solo, a manual character-switch option is available.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Credits

Game developed by students of HEAJ (2024–2025) (Created as part of their graduation project – Travail de Fin d’Études)

💼 Leads & Production

📅 Game Producer – Salim El Bannoudi 
🎬 Game Director – Ziad Ben Ayed
🎨 Lead Artist – Théotime Lemaire

🔧 Design & Programming

🧠 Game Design – Antoine Saunier
🧭 Level Design – Ludovic Hollands & Salim El Bannoudi
📖 Narrative Design – Antoine Saunier & Gaëtan Darmon
🖥️ Game Programming – Gaëtan Darmon

🔊 Audio & Video

🎧 Sound Design – Salim El Bannoudi & Ziad Ben Ayed
🎵 Music – Salim El Bannoudi
🎞️ Trailer Editing – Konrad Szawkalo

🎨 Art & Visuals

💡 Lighting & Tech Art – Emmeline Vanden Waeyengerh
🏗️ 3D Art & Environment Design – Nicolas Van Bastelaer & Monir Bouchayoua
✨ VFX & Tech Art – Théotime Lemaire 
🕺 Animation – Konrad Szawkalo
🖲️ UI Design – Konrad Szawkalo  & Monir Bouchayoua
👤 Character Design – Sabrina Hermant & Théotime Lemaire