High Maintenance

Jump into an underground metro system to defend the city from rogue janitorial equipment! High Maintenance is a fast-paced mashup of classic arcade games with modern action gameplay.  

Controls

We recommend playing with a controller however mouse and keyboard also works. 

Tips and Tricks

Be sure to play the tutorial from the main menu! Everything mentioned here is explained in the tutorial.

• Use the right joystick to change gravity after hitting the gravity ability button
• Press Y to rotate the wall
• Hit enemies to put gravity stacks on them
• Slam enemies with gravity stacks against any wall to cause a gravity implosion
• Slam enemies with gravity stacks against a wall you built for more points and to gain more health
• Get as far as you can get the highest score possible!

Ubisoft University Contest

This game was made for the 2023 Ubisoft University Contest hosted by Ubisoft. We had 10 weeks to make a game with the theme of Arcade as well as additional mandates like an online leaderboard, creation and destruction mechanics, and a gravity manipulation mechanic. There were a total of 19 teams competing for 9 awards. High Maintenance was nominated for Best Technical Challenge and Innovation as well as Best Creativity and Theme Integration and won the Best User Experience award!

Check out Champlain College of Vermont's other team Frog Hat Studio and their game Flip Against the Frontier also on itch.io!

Credits

The Team

Andrea Kutsup - Props, Environment Art

Joseph Romanowski - Technical Design, Scrum Master

Nathan Desjardins - General Programming

Nicolletta Rothschild - Game Design, UI, Product Owner

Noah Cichowlas - Music, SFX

Noble Westbrook - Character Art, Animation, VFX

Samuel Fox - AI Programming

Sam Sussman - Level Design

Contributors

Annabel Kusnitz - Character Voice Acting

Dillon Drummond - Narration Voice Acting

Special Thanks To...

Our mentors Vincent Dionne and Vincent De Perrot,

Our professor Jalil Laalami Ouali,

and all of our testers!