Slime Hunter is a simple virtual reality game created within about 2-3 months by
myself and 3 others as a group project. This project was unique in the way that
each of us were switching roles between months in the semester. That is to say,
one person was Project Lead, another was Digital Artist, another was Lead
Developer/Secondary Tester, and finally Lead Tester/Secondary Developer. The
intention of structuring the class this way was to give us perspective for each
role in a real development environment. Originally, we were supposed to make a new
project each time we switched roles and were given a basic objective to follow for each
new project. For example, the first objective was to create a game using a state machine.
However, with our professor's permission, we decided to keep upgrading the same project
each month and apply any new objectives to it. Thus, Slime Hunter as it is today was the result.
The game itself is a simple concept. The player is tasked with hunting down pink slimes
with a sword (or two) to collect slime fuel. Initially, we wanted to have the player desposit
said fuel into a sort of generator, but that was cut due to time constraints. The player
is placed in a transparent maze with color coded doors that can be opened or closed.
Slimes will spawn in the maze randomly and wander around, as well as 2 spiky
enemies which will attempt to ram into and disrupt the player. See the gameplay demo
below for more.
Due to the way our roles rotated around, my contribution to Slime Hunter took isn't quite as immediately visible to someone playing the game. I was Project Lead for the first month, and at that point we were still trying to figure out what a Project Lead should be doing. That mostly consisted of keeping the others organized and accountable for getting their work done each week, and writing and presenting the GDD and the project at the end of the month. Next, I was the Lead Tester/Secondary Developer, so I found the most productive thing I could do during that time - aside from testing the game when needed - was to create the maze the player navigates and program the color coded doors. When the third role change cycle came around, we decided to finally move on to a new project, as the objective would be to add multiplayer and we felt that wouldn't work for what Slime Hunter was supposed to be. Before the role switch, we took some time to make the game look a bit more pretty; I added materials to the maze, others added music, sound, and the skybox.