neonVasion

Game made for TU Graz's GDD2 course: submission with ID 12018380. The purpose of the exercise was to edit the provided project (https://gamelabgraz.itch.io/minimal-classic-game) to add juiciness and polish.

Assets used:

• LeanTween: tweening library
  • Free Unity asset store license
• Music: "Game On!" by HeatleyBros
  • Free for non-commercial use
  • Sped up to 150 BPM
  • Edited to generate harmonizing SFX track
• Basic SFX: Universal Sound FX
  • Unity Asset Store license, free from a Humble Bundle
• Font: 2589-LDR
  • Free for non-commercial use, I have a license anyway

Effects involved, non-exhaustive list:

• Custom meshes, shaders, and textures
  • Using both ShaderGraph and Shaderlab
• Animations and particles
  • Complex material and UI animations done with Unity's animation tool
  • Simple animations done from code using LeanTween
• Post-processing (bloom, chromatic aberration)
  • Responds to player actions, used to emphasize explosions and screenshake
• Screen shake, obviously :)
• Music-based effects:
  • Enemies will always move to the beat
  • Enemies will slightly adjust their speed in order to always move down on the first beat of a new measure (in this case, every 8th beat)
  • Explosion sound effects harmonize with the background music
  • Audio visualizer, manually driven as WebGL does not easily expose audio spectrum data :(

Missing effects due not finding assets in time / running out of time to make them:

• Win / Lose music
• Juicier title screen
• Dynamically adjusting the bullet speed in order to always hit enemies on the beat
  • This would rely on the fact that enemy positions are essentially deterministic, but it would have required a complete rewrite and I had the idea way too late.
• Screen fade transition on restart
  • I had a cool shader in mind but I needed to submit the project :)