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Druidal Communion

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Production Date

Autumn 2021

Production Duration

01 month

Project genre

2D, beat them up

Team size

01

The main goal behind this project was to create a simple AI system for the enemies.

Most goals sourced back to the idea of enhancing the fight against the enemies: feedback (audio and visual), hiding enemies in the flora and player skills.

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Project details

A Finite State Machine to control the enemies

Both enemies have their own context and a handful of states each that they can go from and out of.

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Both enemies have their own combat behaviours to maximize gameplay variety.

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The warlock (flower) can teleport other enemies or itself near the player to create a threat hierarchy between the two enemies.

Programming

Player skills

Three skills are available to the player.

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Skills are detached from the player entity. They are thus autonomous in their behaviours.

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Every skill has its own associated object from which it is possible to set variables such as damage, type of instantiation into the game environment and others.

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Retrospective

This system, although viable in its execution scope, has its own bucket of flaws. In retrospect, simply using a strategy or a command pattern would have been a much better solution to set up and use every aspect of the player's skills.

Design

A bit of story telling to guide and teach the player

Every time the game starts, a skippable introduction is shown to the player.

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This introduction serves two purposes:

  • Guiding the player's actions

  • Teaching the player what are and where are the important parts of the map.

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Designing AI feedback with a focus on  animation anticipation

Animation was used to display any AI entity's motive and action.

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This ensures a combat flow where AI behaviour is more predictable and less chaotic for the player.

Credits

Visuals

  • All sprites were made by the owner of the game.

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