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The Escape

The following is a prototype made in the month of July to be showed at Let's Play Gaming Expo 2019. Its a top-down, twin-stick action exploration game inspired by the Fallout franchise and the original Legend of Zelda 

Game Info

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  • Designed for gamepad input

  • Single player exploration game with light crafting  aspects       

  • Uses sprite-stacking to produce psuedo-3D assets

  • Features Procedural Animation

  • uses a script based terminal system 

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Development Info

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Role: Lead Designer and Developer

Team Size: 1 

Genre: Action-Exploration

Engine: GameMaker Studio 2

Development Time: 2 months

Procedural Animation

 With the release of Spritepile, A sprite-stacking tool on steam, I could finally develop an efficient workflow for creating assets that could be used within a procedural animation rig. This combination of Sprite-stacking and Procedural Animation allows me to rapidly create 2D assets that can be dynamically taken in and out of a rig. 

The Procedural Animation was quite difficult to create on a functional level, but the harder task was employing a whole host of easing to create an rig that was easy to visually parce.

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LittleBot.gif

I was extremely surprised with the effective nature of these rigs, not only in their appearance but also in system requirements. 

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I enjoyed the look of the rigs so much I employed this for the player character.

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Walking.gif
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Player Upgrades

Unlike my other projects I wanted to finally create a game in which the player acquires upgrades throughout the play experience. Like a "metroidvania" title, I wanted these upgrades to have substantial repercussions for how players interact and explore the world. The first version of this was Jumping. 

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This concept also applies to the player's use of weapons

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