Spirit Run

Description:

They were killed and harvested by the King of Necromancy, but through sheer will and luck, they were given an unethical and unpractical means of fighting back.

Assume the role of the two characters, Ding and Shiv, and end the King of Necromancy’s unholy rule! With one possessing a set of armor and the other a claymore, they must work together in order to traverse the King’s castle and cut down those who rest in their path.

Controls:

F - Shoots out a wave attack

Left Click - perform a dash

WASD - moves the character accordingly, with W being jump

Mouse controls: moves the sword around the player

Escape - Pause

How-to-play:

Move the mouse to control the sword floating around the player and use it to parry projectiles back at their senders!

Postmortem:

Some things our group is particularly proud of are the art and our mechanics. We really wanted to have our art style nailed down and we ironed out our mechanics as much as possible. However, when developing the game, we found collaboration to be quite difficult. Our team balance was a little off, so we ended up with 4 programmers. Despite some of us having to learn new skills and make some of the mechanics for our game from scratch, we still found it was hard to collaborate with one another. We exported our projects and saved them as YYZ files so that we were able to backtrack and keep track of our additions to the game, but because of this, it was quite tedious to add new items from one YYZ to another. One thing we could also improve on would be meeting up as a team more often and discussing small goals that could be done. We also had to cut out some content from the game, such as the eyeball enemy, the flesh level, and some visual effects. This semester taught us all how to work more as a team, and some of us got to learn new skills such as art and sound creation.

Team Members:

Abdulaziz Ibrahim S Alsayyari

Artem Khan

Jack Gerraughty

Jackson Pape

Jakob Aguirre

Yusuf Mohamed

Shoutout to:

Zach R.