Project: Ravenwood Cove is a top down fighting game, where you fight vegetable based enemies and use their dropped resources to then create baked goods.

This game takes place in the forest where you can explore and face different kinds of enemies, the demo only having a little carrot enemy to face off against.

I worked on the Main Character of the game. I was in charge of creating smooth top down movement, attacks plus attack animations, a dash ability as well as Character UI. I worked on the project using the Godot game engine, something I am too familiar with. I decided to give the main character a sword for a weapon as I was told to give them a basic attack animation and code but never given information of what kind of weapon or attack style we wanted. I decided a sword would be best as I believe most games use a sword as a weapon and seemed basic. 

What I was trying to express in my choices was something cute. I found a cute sword.png to use for our main character while everything was being designed and animated. I really did not want the game to feel intimidating when someone would play for the first time. I made the dash cool down 1 second so people would not be able to spam the ability and travel through the map at lightning speed, but so they can use it to maneuver around enemies and change how they want to approach a fight. I placed the character UI in the top left corner of the screen as I felt that is where it would look best and not be in the way of the player.

What I have contributed to my teams project a second time was creating a character inventory UI. I had to find free assets for an inventory design as we did not have one of our own to use. After that I began to implement and design an inventory system. Once I created the layout of the inventory system I started on the programming. I created the inventory and made it interactable with the press of a button, once that was working I began working to make it operational. The inventory system then was able to count how many items were picked up and even displayed an image of the item you picked up. I then set a limit of how many items could be in a bundle before it took up another slot in the inventory. After everything was set I connected the inventory system to the main character and placed it where I thought it would not distract the player but also not be hidden.

What I was trying to express was something familiar. I created the inventory to have 4 columns with 3 sets of slots in each column as I believed that would be the most appealing visually. I then connected the inventory Open/Close button to “E”. I believed since we have WASD movement that it would feel better for the player to press “E” to interact with their inventory, instead of reaching across the keyboard for a different key or bend their finger at a weird angle to press another.