My Contributions
Project Passing Gate
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Team size: 6
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Dev time: 4 weeks
3D top-down isometric action platformer heavily inspired by the combat and esthetics of Death’s Door along with the movement and storytelling techniques of Hyperlight Drifter.
Contributions Details
The Spells in Passing Gate was themed after the level you were currently on. My responisbilities during this project was to work with the designer in charge of the Ice Level. We came up with A powerful short-range shotgun iceblast, And a Iceblock able to morph depending on the situation it's applied to.
Use it for blocking enemy attacks!
Use it to bridge pits & chasms!
Ice Shards
In a nutshell
Ice shards spawns three projectiles at the player position, the LeftShard & RightShard is offset by the same angle from the MiddleShard
Ice Block
In a nutshell
Ice Block is spawned by a two-step process. When the player activates the spell for the first time I call preparingToCast(),
This function spawns a moveable non-collideable version of the IceBlock at mousePosition (SpawnPos), The spell continuously checks if it's above ground or not. if the spell is above solid ground it will morph into a barrier wich the player can use for cover, if it's not above ground the IceBlock will morph into a platform at current ground level. If the player chooses to activate the spell again the IceBlock will "Solidify" and become collideable. A timer will start at this point and when it runs out the IceBlock will self-destruct
Passing gate is a bit of a weird beast. Even though it's a platformer we didn't give the player the ability to activly jump. Pretty much all of the plaforming is done horizontally using dashing.
Dashing Mechanic
In a nutshell
When the player activates dashing, I take the current velocity and multiply it with DashPower, and then force movement in that direction with the new velocity for the duration of the dash. I also disable the gravity to keep the player from losing altitude during the dash.
We originally had planned to include enemies that was supposed to fire Homing Projectiles at the player. However we ended up not using this in the finalized game due to prioritizing other more pressing tasks.
