METROIDVANIA
DESCRIPTION
Metroidvania Project is a metroidvania game that is still in development. Currently in the pre-production phase, creating the base system for the game to build upon.
The game is centered around a key weapon that can be used to fight enemies, traverse the environment (using grapple-like movement) and unlock new paths.
ROLES
Game Design
Technical Design
Programming
Narrative/World Design
SKILLS LEARNED
- C# Programming (in Unity)
- Unity UI
- Unity Animation Graphs
- Unity Particle Systems
YEAR
2024 - ???
PLATFORM
PC
Team Size
3
GENRE
Metroidvania
Surrounding Movement
Gamepad Aiming Prototype
Gamepad Aiming Prototype
Gamepad Aiming Prototype
UI Health & Energy
For creating the UI I first implemented some designer art (that is now replaced with higher quality art). I came up with the concept of locks for hearts and the animations of it opening and implemented it using scripting.
For the energy I knew we used the key so I implemented a system to fill bars in the key and change colors of filled bars. I also added functionality to charge energy and release it. Lastly I added other animations that we needed for the key, like gaining energy, full energy and burst explosion of energy.
Enemies
First a base enemy script was created by me. In which health, taking damage and death is handled.
From the base a Ground and Flying enemy base script were created. This allows new enemies to be created faster with some base logic that can be adjusted as needed.
All enemy scripts come with base attacks, movement and player detection logic.
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Below are all the enemies in their current states. The first GIF shows the base enemy behavior (player model used for testing purposes)
The Requail is a ground enemy that patrols and does not follow the player around. However if the player gets too close it will fire an energy shot that will blast the Reqauil backwards to try and get it to safety.
Requail
The Toppler is another ground enemy that patrols and doesn't follow the player. It will flip over when reaching a wall and can only be hurt from their backside.
Toppler
The Drainling is the last of the ground enemies that patrols. It moves in set distance steps and detect whether or not there is enough space for a step. If there isn't it turns around. It is more of a resource to the player than an enemy.
Drainling
The Dartwing is a flying enemy that uses its sharp body to launch itself at the player. If it misses the player is will bounce from any other surface it hits, stunning it for a bit. It will quickly zoom around the player at all times until its defeated.
Dartwing
The Shroomstalker is a ground enemy that hides in the background. When the player gets to close it will start rolling towards them while being invulnerable. When the enemy hits a wall it will bounce back and out of its shell.
Shroomstalker
The Moss Mammoth is a ground enemy that patrols, but charges at the player if they get close. It gets stunned when hitting a wall and falls off any edges it encounters. During the charge this enemy cannot turn around.
Moss Mammoth
The Mossket is a flying enemy that tries to keep some distance from the player. It shoots projectiles, which apply force to itself that shoot them backwards to avoid the player.
Mossket
Level
After doing research into dynamic tilemaps I succesfully created one using some basic art assets I made. It will be easy to create future dynamic tilemaps now which will increase efficiency of creating levels.
Next we needed a way to transition between levels. I created a level transition mechanic that can bring you to another level (and store some temporary variables) at the right spot.
Inside levels there were going to be hazards. In order to not have the player get stuck on them it was decided to be best to respawn the player when getting hit by those hazards. The system relies on some hitboxes that track last safe location.
