This was my first game project at DigiPen and it was developed in a team of 3 programmers. It had a development cycle of 2 months using the Unity engine.

My main contributions to the project were:

• Game Design Document: Wrote the GDD for the game, covering every aspect of the project’s design. The Slice Knights GDD and the game as a whole has sinced been showcased as a template for future DigiPen students taking the same class.

• Slime AI: Developed the AI for the slime enemy. It is a simple state machine with two states: Patrol and Attack. It’s default state is Patrol and whenever a player enters its range, it takes them as a target and it triggers the Attack state. Whenever the targetted player leaves its range it returns to Patrol.

• Power-Ups and Hazards: Implemented different types of swords that could be bought in the shop during level transitions. Each sword has its own different stats and advantages. For example: A sword that throws an energy beam as a range attack, a sword that allows players to dash and reach platforms further away… I also was in charge of implementing different hazards throughout the game’s levels, such as spikes, lava, a cannon, etc…

• Inventory System and Game Progression: Created a simple inventory system that allowed the game to keep track of how many coins or power-ups the players had with them and for this information to be stored in between scene loading. Also implemented a system that allowed us to set up the sequence of levels that needed to be loaded for the game’s progression to be adjusted. This way whenever the players finished a level, the game knows which level to load next during level transitions.

• Camera Logic and UI: We needed a camera that was able to handle two players on screen and still be comfortable to use. For this I made it so whenever the two players are alive, the camera will focus on the midpoint between them (up to a certain distance between players to avoid that any of them leave the screen). And whenever a player dies, the camera focuses on the currently alive player until a respawn occurs. I also implemented a simple UI showing the current weapon held by each one of the players, the total coin / potion count, and a health bar for each one of the players.

• Controller Support: Even though the game can be played by just having two people using the same keyboard, we wanted to implement controller support. I adapted our Player Controller code in order to support Unity’s Input System (which was brand new at the time of development) and set up the controller button layout.

Along with other smaller tasks which covered aspects such as debugging code, designing level layouts, improving visual and sound feedback, etc.