TIANRUI "TERI" ZHANG
GAME SYSTEM / LEVEL DESIGNER
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Tales of RingCity is a third person action adventure game. The game was made as my Final project for Game Development Class. The theme is based on a personal IP that I created.
This page is going to mainly focuses on the technical details of the prototype.
Position:
Solo Project
Engine:
Unity
Team Size:
1
Duration:
2 Weeks
GAME OVERVIEW
In This prototype, player traverses within a randomly generated castle and fights enemies that shoot bullets toward him. The basic controls are: WASD to move. Left Mouse Click to Attack, Left Shift to Run, Space to Jump, Left Control to Dash, and Q to activate shield.
The main goal of the game is to eliminates all ememies within the castle.
SYSTEM DIAGRAM
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHT
The shield mechanic is one of the biggest challenge that I encoutered while working on this Project. When the shield activates, it is going to reflect incoming bullets back towards its shooter.
In the first iteration of the shield, I decided to use math to calculate reflected angle of the bullet. After coding the reflection calculation into the game, I found it buggy and not fully functional. In most of the time, the bullet does not fly towards right direction.
That caused me to come up with the new method. For this time, when bullets collide with the shield. The shield will instantly destroy the bullet, register the location of the shooter, and instantiate a bullet back towards the enemy. After some playtesting, the new shield can properly reflect bullet and it feels usefull for the playe to activate it.
