PostMortem

Successes:

• Collaborated and created a platformer game with 5 levels: Easy, Medium 1, Medium 2, Hard and Boss.
• Designed and created UIs, the player, enemies and animations. 
  • The player is animated with idle, run, jump and damage states.
  • swords enemies, archer enemies and a boss
• Our game has a smooth difficulty curve. 
  • Tutorial
  • Level selection map
• We dedicated ourselves to create fun user experience. 
  • environment objects: lava pools, stalactites, moving platforms, etc.

Setbacks:

• Sprites and Animations
  • Creating sprite animations with variable angles for shooting
  • Learning how to create sprites and their animations
• Player Tracking and Interaction
  • Tracking the mouse in 2D space with a moving player
  • Tracking player health and score between levels
• Overall Game Design and Creation
  • Time constraints ie. Unexpected extra time for integration and implementation
  • Figuring out level design that is playable but interesting with a natural feel of progression
  • Delayed music and sound due to bug with DoNotDestroyOnLoad Game Manager

What We Learned:

• GAME DESIGN:
  • Rewards system(What motivates the player more)
  • Battle system (skeletons)
• COLLABORATIONS:
  • Assignments
  • Avoid Merge Conflicts
• C# SCRIPTING:
  • Concise code
  • Code reusability
  • AI for the enemies and boss
• ANIMATIONS:
  • Animations process
• UI:
  • Clean and Consistent
  • Straightforward

Future Potential Addons:

• LARGER LEVELS — In reality, caves are using very large and have a lot of possible routes; It would be nice if the player got to experience the same vibe as someone who was actually exploring a cave 
• CHECKPOINT SYSTEM — With larger levels, the more progress that the player loses each death. A checkpoint system within the levels would remove some of that frustration
• MORE TOOLS — More mechanics in the game may improve the games replayability, as more tools would mean an increased number of unique ways to complete each level
• INTERACTABLE ENVIRONMENT — As of right now, you can only destroy terrain using dynamite. Levels may encourage more exploration if we had more interactable environments, especially with the addition of new tools
• MORE ENEMIES – For example, Bat Enemies