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Dinozards

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Role: Game Designer & Gameplay Programmer

Development Time: 7 Weeks (2019)

Tools: Unity, Unreal Engine 4

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Team: 12
 

Contributions:

  • Game Design

  • Prototyping

  • Game Play Programming

About

 

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Dinozards is an arena based top-down multiplayer brawler where you play as a Magical Dino-baby having to fight for its survival against other Dino Babies for the affection of your Wizard Father

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You can play 2-4 player Free for All or 2v2 Team Mode. 

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Mechanics

Mechanics

Fire Ball

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Cast Homing Seeking Fire Balls for Damage and Knock Back

Reflect

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Reflects Incoming Fire Balls back at Players but with greater Speed and Knockback

Dash

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Dash into Players to inflict lighting Damage or Evade incoming Fireballs

Design

Game Design

  • The game started as a Project where i researched about Tutorials in Video Games. ...
    The game leaned early on to something in First-Person as I was the sole developer and couldn't rely on characters and animations etc. and wanted to showcase interesting design. I had an old idea of Rewinding and Fast forwarding time and manipulating objects during their different states, so I did research with this in mind and got a lot of inspirations in terms of Level Design and Puzzle Components, mainly from Portal and Quantum Conundrum. I brainstormed with the components and mechanics in mind to get a sense of the amount of variations of puzzles that could be made by combining them with each other. I then prototyped the Mechanic and some Components and saw the potential and decided to continue.

Ideation

The Main Inspirational Source came from a Warcraft 3 Mod that featured Spell Casting & Knocking Players into a Shrinking Threat
The Unreal Engine 4 Prototype

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  • The game started as a Project where i researched about Tutorials in Video Games. ...
    The game leaned early on to something in First-Person as I was the sole developer and couldn't rely on characters and animations etc. and wanted to showcase interesting design. I had an old idea of Rewinding and Fast forwarding time and manipulating objects during their different states, so I did research with this in mind and got a lot of inspirations in terms of Level Design and Puzzle Components, mainly from Portal and Quantum Conundrum. I brainstormed with the components and mechanics in mind to get a sense of the amount of variations of puzzles that could be made by combining them with each other. I then prototyped the Mechanic and some Components and saw the potential and decided to continue.
Game Play Programing

Game Play Programming

  • The game started as a Project where i researched about Tutorials in Video Games. ...
    The game leaned early on to something in First-Person as I was the sole developer and couldn't rely on characters and animations etc. and wanted to showcase interesting design. I had an old idea of Rewinding and Fast forwarding time and manipulating objects during their different states, so I did research with this in mind and got a lot of inspirations in terms of Level Design and Puzzle Components, mainly from Portal and Quantum Conundrum. I brainstormed with the components and mechanics in mind to get a sense of the amount of variations of puzzles that could be made by combining them with each other. I then prototyped the Mechanic and some Components and saw the potential and decided to continue.

Overview

2v2 Match
Animator used as State Machine

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Fire Ball

Fire Ball Ability & Fire Ball Projectile Prefab

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  • The game started as a Project where i researched about Tutorials in Video Games. ...
    The game leaned early on to something in First-Person as I was the sole developer and couldn't rely on characters and animations etc. and wanted to showcase interesting design. I had an old idea of Rewinding and Fast forwarding time and manipulating objects during their different states, so I did research with this in mind and got a lot of inspirations in terms of Level Design and Puzzle Components, mainly from Portal and Quantum Conundrum. I brainstormed with the components and mechanics in mind to get a sense of the amount of variations of puzzles that could be made by combining them with each other. I then prototyped the Mechanic and some Components and saw the potential and decided to continue.
Fire Ball Ability C# Script
Fire Ball C# Script

Reflect

  • The game started as a Project where i researched about Tutorials in Video Games. ...
    The game leaned early on to something in First-Person as I was the sole developer and couldn't rely on characters and animations etc. and wanted to showcase interesting design. I had an old idea of Rewinding and Fast forwarding time and manipulating objects during their different states, so I did research with this in mind and got a lot of inspirations in terms of Level Design and Puzzle Components, mainly from Portal and Quantum Conundrum. I brainstormed with the components and mechanics in mind to get a sense of the amount of variations of puzzles that could be made by combining them with each other. I then prototyped the Mechanic and some Components and saw the potential and decided to continue.
Reflect Ability & Inspector

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Reflect Ability C# Script

Dash

Dash Ability & Inspector

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  • The game started as a Project where i researched about Tutorials in Video Games. ...
    The game leaned early on to something in First-Person as I was the sole developer and couldn't rely on characters and animations etc. and wanted to showcase interesting design. I had an old idea of Rewinding and Fast forwarding time and manipulating objects during their different states, so I did research with this in mind and got a lot of inspirations in terms of Level Design and Puzzle Components, mainly from Portal and Quantum Conundrum. I brainstormed with the components and mechanics in mind to get a sense of the amount of variations of puzzles that could be made by combining them with each other. I then prototyped the Mechanic and some Components and saw the potential and decided to continue.
Dash C# Script
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