Cayupi (common “Mapuche” last name, from Chilean native indigenous) is a game I created back in 2007 for my graphic design final degree project at Universidad Diego Portales. I created the game from scratch; graphics, basic programming, character design, sound composition and customised pixel-based font design.

A classic platform game based on the ones I played as a kid, a simple story styled as an 80’s video game in which the Chupacabras (A typical mythological South American monster) unexpectedly take control of Chile with the aid of mutated animals from the national fauna, taking Millaray, our hero Cayupi’s girlfriend as a hostage. With the help of all the other indigenous tribes from Chile, Cayupi decides to fight the Chupacabras and his mutated army to save Chile, its people and fauna and rescue his girlfriend.