LUMI

High Concept

All humankind is placed under a curse by a dark force, forcing them to live underwater in the form of an animal spirit. Venture through the three different underwater environments and collect the orbs of power to defeat the curse. This game was made using Unity, with a group of 6 students. I was the lead programmer of the project.

Project Info

Project: Carleton University Capstone Project
Role: UI Programmer, Gameplay Programmer
Engine: Unity
Programming Languages: C#

Responsibilities

Gameplay implemetation
UI implementation
AI implementation
Animation implementation
Dialogue System
Quest System
Feature prototyping and iterations
Level design for all levels
Random environment generator
Project website design and implementation

UI Implementation

Main Menu/Pause Menu/End Screen implementation

Health and Speical ability bars

Mini map that you can expand to see the full map that shows walls, enemies, interactables, quests, end point

Level up icons when you comlete quests

Dialogue text that comes up when you chat with NPCs that gets updated when you complete a quest for them

Crosshair when you are in range of enemy

In game UI: enemy health, quest icon on NPC, chat icon on NPC

Full keyboard/controller implementation

AI Implementation

Enemy type 1 - Shark: Follows player when a certain radius in front, bites the player at certain intervals. Chose a melee type attack since the player has a ranged attack so they can dodge this enemy easier

Enemy type 2 - Ink Blob: These ink blobs would float around in the water thorughout the level, and if the player got close enough it would slowly follow the player. Player has to hit the blobs to get rid of them, they sometimes drop health.

Boss - The Kraken: This boss had 8 tentacles that would move around and try to hit the player when close enough. The kraken shot ink blobs that would follow and hit the player unless the player shot it in time. Kraken would take some damage when hit on the mesh, but had a weak spot in the back of its head that would open/close in certain intervals that when hit would take extra damage.

Dialogue System

Created dialogue system for core storyline with sidekick and enemy, and side quest NPCs

Dialogue would update based on how much you had progressed, for example on a jellyfish collection quest it would update the text if you had already picked up a jellyfish before talking to the quest giver to acknowledge that you had started the quest already

Dialogue system included input prompts in the UI that came up when near an interactable character, click to advance feature, and sound effects based on who was speaking to you

Quest System

Game included a main quest to pass each level and defeat the boss and 3 side quests, one per level

Created a quest system to keep track of where the player was in game and what quests they had finished

Player got a permanent buff when side quests were complete that were kept for the rest of the game

I created three different side quests - a collection quest, kill enemies in certain time, and a racing quest

Environment Generator

To assist in the level design of our three vast underwater levels, I created a random environment generator that took in assets from the artists and an amount and placed them randomly on a flat plane and would attach to either the floor or other models in the way

It was made designer friendly so it could be placed on the ground, on rocks, and on other items placed on the ocean surface

It was also very flexible for the designer to play around with the assets and amounts in the generator to make it look right

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