Shard of Ariah
This was the project I worked on for Digital Media. I was in a group of 5 and was the programmer of the group. It is a first person RPG with melee and spell based combat. I programmed the stat system, a spell creation system (so designers can easily create new spells), the basic save system, the basic melee combat system and spell combat system. I also programmed the AI in the game for NPCs and enemies. Additionally I have done work to integrate an inventory plugin to our game so that it works with our stat system when it comes to creating items and displaying the character’s stats, rather than using the stat system it came with.
Engine: Unity
Stats
The character has a variety of stats. Strength raises your melee damage, vitality raises your health, intelligence raises your magic damage and dexterity raises ranged damage. Armor and magic resist reduce damage from physical and magical attacks, respectively. The player earns experience from quests and defeating enemies, leveling up. When you level up you gain a stat point you can use to raise a main stat.
Spell System
Spells are objects that can be easily created and edited in Unity’s inspector. Values can be assigned without any programming needed. Then the spell needs to be dragged into the game as a spell component and be easily tested. Spells come in 6 varieties: projectiles, projectiles that explode at the end of their trajectory, ray cast targeted explosives, self emanating explosions, self buffs, and targeted debuffs. Settings can be changed such as the number of projectiles launched, projectiles per second, and then damage/range/buff values.
AI Interaction
I designed the AI in the game to not treat the player any differently than other AI in the game. Pawns (NPCs, enemies and the player) are treated as Friendly, Neutral and Hostile. These types all interact with each other differently. Hostile units attack friendly and neutral units on sight, for example. A friendly unit will give another friendly unit who attacks them 3 strikes before retaliating.
AI also have multiple idle states. One is to patrol along a set path, another is to guard a set point, and the last is to wander in a set area at random. They exit these idle states by entering combat. When their enemies are dead or they have strayed too far from their idle point they automatically exit combat.
