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Descent
Senior Project - Rouge Like Video Game
Descent is a top-down shooter built in Unity using C#, where players battle through procedurally generated floors filled with enemies. Defeating all enemies on a floor unlocks the path to the next one. As players defeat enemies, they earn experience points, and upon leveling up, they get to choose a power-up ability. Since each floor is randomly generated, no two playthroughs are the same.
Game Menus
Pause Menu
Power Up Screen
When the player launches the application, they're greeted with a main menu offering two options: starting a new game or loading a previous save file. During gameplay, players can pause at any time using the escape key. When enough experience points are earned to level up, a power-up screen appears, presenting three randomly selected abilities for the player to choose from. The experience required to level up increases slightly with each level, adding a scaling challenge as the game progresses.
Floor Generation
Challenges
As the team lead, one of my biggest challenges was learning how to delegate effectively and figuring out how to break the project into tasks and match them to each team member's strengths took some trial and error early on. On the technical side, generating randomized rooms and floors was a significant hurdle. After researching different approaches, I discovered Perlin noise and learned how to implement it to procedurally generate floor layouts that felt natural rather than random and disjointed.
Credits
Programers - Emily Krohn, Abdul Bin Nasir, Dylan Dao, and Caitlin San Pedro
Assets Used:
Background, Player, and Enemy art: https://pixel-poem.itch.io/dungeon-assetpuck by Pixel_Poem
Background: https://szadiart.itch.io/rogue-fantasy-catacombs?download by Szadi art