Luxo's Horde
Tam Phillips, 2019
A simple Shoot 'em Up minigame. You play as Luxo the dragon and defend your horde of gold from the pesky adventurers who wish to steal away all of your gold.
Development
Luxo's Horde was a simple shoot'em up minigame, my first real game that I had made.
This project also sparked my interest in NPC behaviours and Game AI.
Being a solo project it, I was responsible for all aspects of the game.
Enemy Mechanics
My first dip into NPC behaviours.
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I designed simple 4 NPC behaviours:
Orcs - aim to collide with the player by running at a moderate speed in the direction the player was when they spawned
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Dwarves - aim to collide with the player by running at a slow speed but making a beeline for the players current location
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Humans - shoot at the player from the point that they had spawned in
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Elves - shoot at the player from the sidelines but also strafe along the Y-axis to follow the player
Unity
Being my first game meant that this was also my first real experience making something in Unity. I had previously played around in Unity, but never really got far in it.
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Prior to this most of my experience in programming was from a non-gaming standpoint, primarily having created console programs, NXT robot programs and a few GUI programs with Java.
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