A downloadable project

Week 2:

This week was a catch-up week. After coming back to the state late due to the plane flight and doing solo team.

Made a design document and road map for the rest of the semester:

Started studying inspirations like Hollow Knight, Celeste, and Super Meat Boy.

Prototyped player movement in 2D space. https://youtu.be/kznYK1s7Phk

Horizontal movement, jump, hang time, wall slide, wall jump, quick fall, & death.
Player interactions on cubes: floating, slow fall, death, & timed destruction.
Temporary levels for testing controller movement.

Created a rough draft of my hierarchical state machine for player states. The state pattern architecture has been made within Unity, but the unique states have not been implemented.

Week 3:

This week I refactored almost all of my if statement code into the hierarchical state machine. I also added a combo attack around 3 separate attacks and made an attack that throws a weapon.

Attacking, Throwing, Movement, Jumping, Wall sliding, and Enemies.

Enemy hurt effects.

During this process, I updated my documentation on Figma.

I found animations to use as a placeholder on itch.io.

Week 4

Wall Jumping from a Wall Sliding state.

Throwing an object pushes you in the opposite direction while airborne.

The player can stand on their spears stuck into the terrain. This is cool but doesn't feel great. Will probably rework to bounce the player.

Improved character weight and control based on feedback from last week.

Started reworking mouse aim. It will be an 8-directional axis, and I am thinking about removing the throwing ark.

Attacks: spear throwing, air attack, and 3 combo grounded attacks. This week I really tried to focus on the feeling of the game controller rather than adding more states. Improved character weight and control based on feedback from last week.

I added wall jumping and throwing an object pushes you in the opposite direction while airborne. The player can stand on their spears stuck into the terrain. This is cool but doesn't feel great. Will probably rework to bounce the player.

Started reworking mouse aim. It will be an 8-directional axis, and I am thinking about removing the throwing ark.

Week 5:

Feeling the art bottleneck

This week I made particles:

Enemy - blood, squash, small jump, sound

Player - spear trail, moving dust, sound Player dust on movement, sounds, and trail on spear attack.

Enemy damage impact: blood, squash, sound, and small jump.

Week 6:

This week I pivoted the entire game...

I was having a hard time being motivated to work on something that felt like I was copying from other 2D platformers/metroidvanias. Also, I was running into 2D art roadblocks. It was really hard to match the pixel art style that I had found assets for, and it was too time-consuming.

Thus, my plan is to make a 3D bullet hell shooter game with coop multiplayer goodness. The art constraints should be lifted now that I can yonk animations from Mixamo. Shooters should be a bit more simple to implement too.

I was able to reuse a lot of my architecture from my 2D game, mainly the state machine and player architecture.

Movement, jumping, dodging, and client connection are implemented.

Here is my new engineering diagram: