Ro-Bombs

Description

Game

  A bomb diffuse arcade game where you have to beat minigames to not trigger the bomb wires. If you trigger 5 wires, the bomb will explode. Each minigame gets harder as the score increases. We also designed and built a custom controller for the game (as seen in the trailer). The buttons are inside holes and if you touch the walls, you will trigger a wire in the game.

My Contributions

  In this university project, we were a team of 6. I was responsible for making and juicing the 4 out of 8 minigames for the game. I made a difficulty system where each minigame has a custom way of getting harder.
  Also, I planned the architecture of the project as well as made a designer-friendly interface by integrating the low-level engine provided by the university (GXPengine) with Tiled, which is an interface that returns the data as XML files.

Soft Skills Development

  I was the scrum master and used HacknPlan (a planning tool) to give each team member tasks that we agreed on as a team. We had daily meetups and constantly adapted to the new problems. During the meetings I had to do some micromanaging and, as a result, I learned a lot about the processes of game design, sound design, asset creation, and management.
  Additionally, we had a conflict where a team member wasn't happy with the ideation process being too long. In trying to solve the conflict, we talked in a group and decided to set a deadline sooner but not minimize the importance of proper brainstorming.

What is the GXPengine?

  It's a low-level engine that provides basic 2D physics, rendering, sound, an inheritance-based GameObject system and it parses the XML data from Tiled. There is no scene loading, data saving, or UI system which I made from scratch.

Credits

Video song: "Risk" by StudioKolomna
Designer: Connor Smith
Designer: Andrii Tiazhkorob
Artist: Nikki Joren
Artist: Larissa Landstra
Engineer: Nikola Goev