…My Boss Doesn’t Know I’m a Lizard!
Year: 2026
Game Link: …My Boss Doesn’t Know I’m a Lizard!
Group Size: 5
Winner of “Game of the Jam” for Global Game Jam 2026, NYU Game Center site.
Help! I Glued My Hands to My Hands to My Keyboard and My Boss Doesn’t Know That I’m a Lizard is a 2D Simulation Management Game made for the 48-hour-long Global Game Jam at NYU Game Center, revolving around the theme Mask. The player plays as a secret lizard person working in an office. They must hold up their keyboard as a mask to convince their boss that their human, while completing office-related tasks by typing on their keyboard.
For this game jam, my main goal was to experiment with new techniques. For instance, I recorded a urinating sound for one of the minigames by cutting a hole at the top of a water bottle and squeezing the water out in a toilet. I also created computer UI sounds by utilizing the 3D synthesis functgion in the Vital vst plugin.
Work Flow
Some sound effects were created from utilizing sound libraries or synthesizers, such as Vital, and then modifying them in Reaper.
Other sound effects, such as the urinating sound, were created by recording real world objects (left) using the zoom h4essential recorder (right).
Implemented sounds into Unity through FMOD events, and organized them accordingly.
Worked with other programmers using Github and Github Desktop for Version Control.
Hooked up FMOD with Unity through a C# scripts, and created functions that would be easy to use in the structure of the gameplay scripts created by the programmers.