Rexel

A demo 2D Platformer built in Unity. View Source Code here.

This project started from a simple tutorial from GameDev.TV. However, as the project scaled, I wanted to try more and more things such as:

• Start / GameOver / Win Screens
• Player Movement
  • Coyote time (allowing a late-jump from a platform - like Celeste)
  • Code-driven sprite animation state machine
  • Non-realistic gravity (player falls faster when returning to ground - this makes the game feel much more responsive and less "floaty")
  • Applied controller joystick dead zones
• Player UI - healthbar, lives, coins, etc.
• Attacks
  • Ability to squash enemies by stomping from above (like Mario)
  • Bow & arrow weapon
• Tracking player & enemy HP
• Dynamic music scoring based on map "zones" - adding more and more tracks play in sync despite being queued up at different times (e.g. strings, bass, drums etc.)
• Code-driven dynamic camera positioning
  • Facing camera left or right based on player position (like Hollow Knight)
• Particle effects!
• Time-freezing during climactic events (like a boss intro in Hollow Knight)
• Checkpoints & dynamic player spawning (instead of hard-reloading the scene for each level)

Things I wanted to do but weren't viable for an MVP:

• Secondary weapon: fireball attack
• Additional enemy types
• Skeleton archer (distance attack)
• Knight sentinel (melee attack)
• Bats (swarm attack)
• Swimming mechanics & underwater levels (oxygen mgmt, eluding piranhas, etc.)
• Add sprint special ability
• Add dash or roll special ability
• Add wall jumping
• Additional tilemap graphics (using the same tilemap over and over got a little monotonous TBH)

I pulled heavily from these resources as well:

• Lost Relic Games - Escaping Unity Animator HELL
• Lost Relic Games - Nintendo Saved my Dream Indie Game from Disaster | Devlog
• Board to Bits Games - Better Jumping in Unity With Four Lines of Code
• Brackeys - START MENU in Unity
• Brackeys - How to make a HEALTH BAR in Unity!

If you have any feedback, positive or (constructively) negative, please hit me up on Twitter or Discord. :)