End of Year Project 2015
Two Headed Ogre
A first person co-operative experience, where two players share control of a Two Headed Ogre. Both players contribute to movement while controlling either the melee or the magic aspects of our protagonist.
Protagonist
The protagonist is a two headed ogre called Headstrong and Hungry, Magic and Melee respectively.
Headstrong
Our melee character has the ability to bash and swing at enemies and is armed with a club that steals life from the enemies he attacks. Our magic character is armed with the ability to conjure differing sizes of earthen boulders, able to charge them with kinetic force, and fire them towards their numerous enemies.
Hungry
Magic and Melee
This technical demo therefore Melee and Magic abilities are somewhat limited. The completed edition of this game would have allowed for combination melee attacks and magic mixing for differing effects, such as:
Additional Magic Elements (Wind, Water, Earth, Fire)
Magic Combination (i.e. Wind + Water = Ice)
Weapon and Armor Upgrades
Co-Operative Play
The game is designed to encourage team work via the Movement Mechanic giving bonus speed to players that work together, and the ability to hit conjured earth boulders flying towards the enemy. Later iterations would have allowed for Melee and Magic effects to stack further as mentioned above.
Controls listed below
Technical Design
As programmer I was responsible for designing and implementing in game systems including the following:
Customer Game Controller
Custom Player Controller
Sound Library
Objective Management (Triggers, Quests, Checkpoints)
Combat Physics (Club/Magic v.s. Enemy)
Level/Scene Management
Enemy Artificial Intelligence
Behaviour Trees
Idle
Pursue
Attack
Death
Airbourne
Damage
Animation Controllers (Protagonist and Enemies)
Melee Arm
Magic Arm
Goblin Enemy
Spawn Controllers
User Interface
Editor Mode Manager (for disabling debug mesh renderers)
Destructible Assets
The Team
AIE assigned us to teams so we could work together in creating our first major assessment.
Lead Programmer: Reece Howe
Lead/Level Designer: Russell Andersen
Designer: Kathy Smart
Environmental Artist: Kieran Mayer
Character Artist: Kristopher La