Project REAP

Table of Contents

• Inital Ideas
• Motivation
• Development
• Asset Creation
• Project Management
• Game
• Future Work

Project REAP

Link to Final Build

Game Demo

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Link to Game Demo

Inital Ideas

Initially, we all had came together with different ideas between an interactive story similar to Minecraft, a puzzle game of looking at diffent places and a 2D platformer. After our initial meeting, we had decided we could incorporate the main components of all our ideas into a 2D platformer.

Motivation

Our goal is to create a 2D platformer where as a person progresses through a scene, they encounter and defeat enemies and a boss to progress through the levels.

Development

There were several different steps in planning that were taken to ensure that everyone was on the same page throughout the development process.

Parts of Game Sketch

To gain a sense of the overall game, the storyline, scene and functionality were mapped relative to world, seed/hook, emotion, goal, suspense, obstacle, interaction/feedback, rules and levels.

There was also the presentation of the different ways the players functionality could be implemented.

Storyline

The outline of the story centered in Japan with trying to defeat enemies that the individual encounters

Protagonist name: Mikhael Masters' name: Darrius and Elena (Married Couple) Getter: In a nation, reaped with chaos, despair and hopelessness, will your blade carve a new destiny, or fall victim to the threads of fate? In a nation gripped by revolutionary fervor and untamed warfare, you are an indentured servant whose fate was nearly sealed on the bloodstained fields of your crumbling farm. From the farmlands that gave you life and hope now destroyed by the everlasting tides of war, ruining everything you once called home. Your only respite now is to move to the capitol, where all people live free from the tyranny of the leaders. Hoping that one day you will find peace, freedom and revert back to the better life you once knew, you embark on the journey that will either empower or enfeeble you. Armed with your battered scythe - a symbol of both hope and freedom and the inevitable harvest of change, you represent your power amongst the encroaching forces of the Anti-Revolution army. As you fight these forces a mysterious power, unlike anything you have ever experienced controls your every movement. A balanced harmony, a swift strike, a sure end. The Flow State, a fleeting surge that lets you leap between enemies with surgical precision. Yet with every chain of perfectly timed strikes, the pressure mounts, the window to execute the next decisive blow narrows, echoing the tightening grip of a nation in upheaval. As you traverse battle-scarred territories, your journey becomes an unforeseen catalyst. Every enemy vanquished, every move made in the heat of combat shifts the very heart of the government - an ever-moving capitol, which houses the revolutionary headquarters, serves to be slightly out of reach for the protagonist, dragging with them a sense of despair to not get this amnesty. With your ever-building courage, proceed with determination and fight to gain your right for freedom. Encountering diverse footmen, powerful leaders, generals, lieutenants, and ultimate tyrants, you carve your destiny and shape a path for a future that would never have been thought to been accomplished by a servant such as yourself. In chaotic crucible of war, loyalty, and fate, your solitary battle becomes a test of precision, resolve, and the haunting realization that sometimes the greatest enemies lie within yourself. Rebel against the head, step into your Flow, and decide whether you will be the liberator that reclaims the nations soul, or the inadvertent harbinger of its downfall.

2D Platformer Inspiration

As a piece of inspiration, one of the levels from shovel night was analyzed.

Updated Functionality

As the functionality is detailed and the storyline is going to be primarily communicated through semantics - the functionality was further revised and updated.

Location

With the inspiration of flowers, this led to the consideration of context to be in Japan as the cherry blossoms are beautiful. Therefore, as a person is traveling through the scene the goal was to see different places and therefore the Nakasendo road plays a role in creating storyline as a person travels.

Background Design

There were several backgrounds created each made up of several layers. Additional layers were used to create differences in the scences. In the images in the details section contain examples of the possible scenes that could be made with the layers.

The final designs were created as pixel art and then layered throughout the scene.

Level Design

As the player progresses through the levels there are obstacles that are necessary to overcome. Below is Level 1 and 2 seperately in the details tab.

Implemented Level 1 Design

The level design was initally implemented based on the drawings.

Updated Level 1 Design

The level design was updated based on the game play.

Asset Creation

Character Design

The character was developed with the idea that the person was a traveler. The details tab below includes the draft design.

Character Sprite

The character designs were then translated to pixel art.

Enemies Designs Draft

The first draft of enemies were based on simple designs that are cammoflauged with the background.

The idea behind the enemies is that they are similar to a blob or a slimey thing that moves around in the scene.

Final Enemy Sprite

The final game sprites were completed with the inspiration of soldiers being the enemies.

Boss Designs Draft

The design of these drafts were based on simple enemies.

The idea behind the boss designs is that they have multiple different colors to give an emotion that they are similar to a combination of all the enemies that they encountered

Final Boss Sprite

These designs were inspired by military Lieuteants.

Attack Options

There were three proposed concepts for the attack for the enemies as shown in details. The animation for the attack that was chosen was Option 2.

Below is the Sprite sheet for the animation of the Attack

Flow State Attack

The flow state attack can be activated when the player achieves a certain amount of points by killing other enemies. The move has the potential to kill the enemies that are present in the scene instantly as well as act as a stronger attack. The concept is shown in the details follwoed by the GIF of the motion.

This is the flow state in the Sprite version.

Flow State Initiate

The flow state can be activated after killing 5 enemies. There were sprites created to show when the flow state as is activated

Title Screen

Design

The intial title screen was drafted in Powerpoint.

The final title screen was implemented in Sprite

Project Management

All communication was on discord and meetings were once a week to assign tasks. The Trello Board was used to keep a record of overall progress. To ensure that all team members had the most up to date version as well as all chages Unity Version Control was used.

Prototype of Game

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Link to Prototype

Future Work

• Incorporate more levels (e.g, level designs and backgrounds)
• Create more boss functionality/ behavior

Contributions

Everyone contributed when needed to help revise ideas but the leads for each portion are below:

Kurt Kimura

• Character design
• Player movement
• Flow state code
• Sprite for character
• Revision of enemies and boss Designs
• Sprites of character, enemies, and boss
• Final version of background
• Implement Sound
• Title Screen Implementation

Amanda Nitta

• Character colors
• Background designs draft
• Flow state launch backend code
• Update website
• Enemies and boss designs
• Player character stats code
• Health recovery backend code
• Find sound effects
• Title screen design

Lloyd Sanderson

• Level design
• Story creation
• Enemies movement code
• Flow state UI
• Player health UI
• Enemies health UI
• Enemies stat
• Enemies inspiration
• Find sound effects

Team:

• Kurt Kimura (Senior ICS Student)
• Amanda Nitta (ICS Graduate Student)
• Lloyd Sanderson (Senior ICS Student)