julch94
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1 year ago Here's some skills/tools I wrote up for GG2 that I shortened down for the main page:
GG2
Summary: GG2 is a top down dungeon crawler built to run in a web browser using HTML5. You play as a mage who must explore each level, collecting new abilities and upgrades, and defeat 3 main bosses to get to the final boss. This game was my final project using the GameMaker engine. If I spent just one day to work on an upgrade to this game it would be to scrap most of the enemies from each level and fix the monitor sync rate issue. This would let the cool bosses and systems of the game really shine.
Key skills and lessons:
- Quality over quantity. The bosses have so much more thought and love put into them compared to the rest of the dungeon rooms and it shows as those are much less interesting.
- Platform testing and understanding hardware impacts. The game speed is sync's with monitor refresh rate which is a major issue.
- How to use resource packs and scale/adapt them to your game's implementation.
- Level design and system design. I spent a significant portion of this project designing the flow of the overall game and interactions of each system.
- GameMaker was great to learn with but it was time to move to Unity or Unreal Engine.
Fill out template from #2 with full details for this project.