Date: 2021
Take the role of Bill Buckins, an alcoholic cowboy fighting to save his boyfriend from a group of ruthless bandits.
Inspired by the Gauntlet arcade games, this top down beat 'em up was made in 10 weeks as a school project.
Roles
Project Lead
Organized meetings that were fair to team member’s time.
Monitored progress and adjusted scope to keep workloads healthy.
Created tools and spreadsheets to make allocation of work clear.
Design Lead
Designed player controls, enemy behavior, and level layout.
Created diagrams to help explain concepts to team.
Technical Lead
Sole programmer for the entire game.
Used UE4 blueprints.
Made with
Unreal Engine 4
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Team
Josh Caudill
Garett DeGeere
Nico Smoak
Paten Morton
Rose Myers
The game's primary obstacles are hordes of enemies surrounding the player, so each attack to achieves two goals:
Have utility in managing large groups of enemies
Incentivize offensive strategies
These 4 attacks provide a variety of choice in how to deal with enemies, while maintaining a consistent fast-paced aggressive feel, while providing a visual spectacle.
The level I designed is a meaty tutorial/vertical slice, with branching pathways to introduce and subsequently test the player on the various combat options.
It's wide open so the player has room to circle enemy clusters and see how far enemies get knocked back during combat.
It uses a key system, having the player search for enemies and hiding spots that have keys to open the next area. This requires the player to engage with enemies more, while also having rooms with health bottles peppered throughout to give breaks to the action.