So it's basically "Rival Schools" meets "Bully", featuring -as the name would suggest- nerds. Amazing that it was put together in a week. It seems simplistic, gameplay-wise but it has good animations and pretty dope low-poly models with lovely textures and everything. The background looks great, too. Don't know if everything was hand made from scratch, but from the visuals, it looks very PS1. You could fool someone with the screenshots any gameplay, that it's a lost PS1 game. Only thing that could need improvement here is the music, which - is good music but - doesn't really seem to fit.
You got it! Bully, The Warriors and Rival Schools were the three games I used as inspiration. I booked the week off work and even then it was still a struggle to get it finished in the end. There was more I wanted to do but was very burnt out come the deadline.
The walls, floor, door wood, and bin lining were all just textures I got from textures.com and scaled down to 256x256 but other than that it was made from scratch. All the characters are just edited versions of each other too so it might look like a lot but its not as much as it seems! the hardest parts was getting the gameplay working (mostly) bug free and the dozens of animations that I had to make.
I totally agree with the music, it was a last second decision as I kind of didn't want just silence. I got it from the Big Music 2 bundle on humble bundle.
I really appreciate you saying it could pass as a PS1 game though, thanks for playing! :)