Necro-Mage: Stronger Together!

Unity, C#

An action game in which you are able to defeat enemies and resurrect them to fight by your side. The project was created in the span of one week for game dev club's Winter 2023 game jam. I served as a programmer/designer for a small group consisting of myself and three others.

My most notable contributions to the game were developing the AI targeting system, engineering the level generation, designing the combat encounters, and implementing all of the art and animations created by our artist.

AI Targeting:

The NPC targeting for the game seemed daunting at first, but once broken down, it was somewhat simple to implement. All targeting would be handled with a NPCStateController script on each unique NPC, being set to one of three pre-defined states: Ally, Enemy, and Dead. With this set up, you could very simply switch the NPCs current state based on the players actions (killing or reviving), and force certain targeting patterns from the state.

Level Generation:

For this game, I created my own Level Generation system. The idea I ended up settling on was grid based, where every tile on the grid would have a number of required and optional components:

Required:

• floor texture

Optional:

• Enemy Encounter
• Portal Crystal
• Item Pickup
• Art Decoration



A global StructureGenerator object would be used to control how many of each optional component we wanted on the whole map, and me or our other designer could modify the variables through the inspector to tweak the level design.

It came out very nicely and was received well by players and teammates alike.