Veggie Menace
High Concept: Veggie Menace is a 2D arcade Run And Gun game where you play as Megi. She is a little traveling witch that, after a failed spell during a vegetable contest, needs to free the kingdom from an invasion of magical sentient vegetables.
You can also play Co-Op with a friend and Hilda will appear to help Megi on her adventure!
Language: C++
Engine: Custom C++ engine built from scratch.
Team Size: 6 Programmers, 3 Artists
Download: Play It On Steam!
My Role: Gameplay & Tools Programmer
Editor: Created a runtime in-engine editor to allow both programmers and artists to modify aspects of the game in an easy way. The editor allowed creating, inspecting, modifying and destroying the component-based GameObjects our engine used. Along with including quality of life features that accelerated the proccess of testing and debugging.
Camera System: Created a camera system that supported multiple layers of parallax and that allowed different effects to be applied during gameplay (e.g. camera shake, scripted sequences, interpolation, etc.). The system also included the logic in order to be able to play the entirety of the game with a second player on screen.
Team Coordination: I was in charge of coordinating the programming and art departments, which was crucial in order to create the Editor given that I wanted them to be able to navigate it with no coding knowledge whatsoever. This coordination was very useful in order to deliver a product that was faithful to their artistic concepts.
Player Controller: I was in charge of tweaking the physics of the player and overall polishing the movement of the player. Also added support of a second player to join at any point of the adventure, along with two players being able to play together on a single keyboard. Even though the system also supports controller.
Levels: Designed and implemented all the game’s levels by using the In-Engine editor. In order to do so, first I created different level greybox prototypes in a fast way thanks to the editor. After playtesting the greybox versions I then decorated the levels with the assets the artists provided us with. This process was done very close to artists in order to preserve their vision.
Power-Ups: Implemented the different types of power-ups the players can obtain: Faster shooting, multiple shooting, explosive shooting and the flying vehicle.
Sound: Implemented FMOD into the engine and created audio components that allowed different sound effects to be triggered by game entities, and other functionalities such as the level music. Along with that, composed the Original Sound Track for the game.
Along with debugging and polishing different aspects of the game during the production.
