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SOLVERE

Side-scrolling | Puzzle-solving | 2D

Team Size: 8 | Unity | Duration: 3 Months

About the Game

Solvere is a 2D side-scrolling puzzle game in which a budding alchemist, Elix, can mix potions and bottles to overcome puzzles, and find the secret ingredient to cure her mother.

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A game made in Unity's 2D Engine.

Roles

Designer | Systems Scripter | AI Scripter

Design

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  • Conceptualization

Solvere was a game borne from a desire to create a uniquely customizable game. The game features a variety of potions and bottles that can be mixed to different effects.

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As one of the three designers on the project, I was responsible for 1/3 of the level designs, including the 3rd level, half of the fourth level, and the entirety of the boss level.

  • Level Designs

Scripting

  • General Framework Scripting

My responsibilities also included a large portion of the game's logic. I was responsible for creating the framework in which the potions interacted with objects within the game, in which the other designers could work off from. This system was widely extensible and featured baseline effects that played if no special cases were specified.

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  • AI Design and Implementation

I was also fully in charge of all AI-related scripting. The 3 enemies in the game all had different AI patterns to match their designs, and to provide specific challenges to the player. To facilitate this, I scripted a state machine framework using Unity's ScriptableObject system to allow for quick implementation of the various patterns of AI logic.

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  • Boss AI Design

Naturally, this responsibility also included the boss. The game's boss is a three-stage climatic encounter that occurs at the end of the game.

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​The boss was designed to gradually get more aggressive as the level went on, but as the horns protecting the crystal on its back broke, also exposed its critical weakness.​

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Not only did the boss feature new, quicker attacks as the fight went on, it also featured configurations of actions that would challenge the instincts of players learnt through the battle.

 

For example, one of the patterns featured a Stalactite drop pattern that would purposely funnel the player closer to the boss, upon which, the boss would do a close range slam attack. This combinations of actions introduced extra difficulty to the boss fight without requiring any new assets, just different variations of actions within the game.

​The boss's action patterns and AI was also created with a state machine and Unity's ScriptableObjects. Due to this, multiple actions could have many variations to keep the fight fresh.

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  • AI Implementation

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