Alternative
Design lead, Programmer
Description:
Alternative is a 2D turn-based RPG where you play as a little girl exploring her own mind.
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Recruit aspects of the protagonist subconscious after defeating them in battle to assist you in future battles, each aspect having unique traits as well as skills.
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Be warned, these aspects have their own personalities and may not follow your commands until you win their trust.
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Walk this dream with the protagonist and her allies to help her on the journey of self discovery.
Genre: Adventure, Poetic Experience, and Strategy
Team size : 6
Duration : 6 months
Engine : Custom C++
Nominated :
Role Description :
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Led team towards vision of the game, iterating game mechanics until team was satisfied with the balance as well as variety of each individual skill and function.
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Implemented the core game play systems and AI to handle turn based combat
Responsibilities :
Design :
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Ally and enemy personality AI behavior
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Personality traits for each type of AI, differentiating their ​attack pattern and probability of listening to the players commands
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Players interaction with defeated enemies
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Defeated enemies can be recruited to help the player in future battles​
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Programming :
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Game play implementation
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Turn based combat tracking​
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AI decision tree
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Finite state machine​
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Combat states
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Play states
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States of enemies and allies​
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2D sprite animation​​
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Mouse physics
