[BA] Fungal Freedom Fighter

Description:

This project is a 2d action rogue-like about being a mushroom and killing robots as part of a live television broadcast death gauntlet.

• Smash robo spiders with your trusty hammer!
• Get to know your fellow mushrooms and robots by talking with them!
• Show off for the viewers as the broadcast audience rates each one of your runs at the end!
• Pretend you're William Wallace! It's not a feature, but you could if you like.
• Laugh (or, optionally, awkwardly cringe) at my style of comedy writing.

Bachelor Thesis - Abstract:

This thesis examines the specific narrative needs of the rogue-like as a genre, with respect to its unique mechanics, and how it conveys narrative both explicitly and implicitly. After establishing a differential diagnosis to the applicability of prevalent narrative structures, the ludic episodic narrative structure is proposed as the solution to marrying rogue-like gameplay with rogue-like story-telling. An exploration of its benefits and drawbacks through a selection of rogue-likes assays its feasibility, guided by a set of criteria.

Credits:

Art, Code, Design, Narrative - Naomi Seeling
1st Advisor - Prof. Florian Berger
2nd Advisor - David Niclas Karlsson
Menu Background & Emotional Support - Carla Rother
Bestest Playtester - Anna Köhler
Typography - https://www.fontspace.com/minecraft-font-f28180
Audio - zapsplat.com

This game was created as part of a bachelor's thesis in Game Design at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences. To those with access to the UE's bitbucket repositories, please find my git journey chronicled at https://bitbucket.org/btkgamedesign/2020_ba_seeling_naomi/src/master/.

The Answers to your Questions:

"The game window is, like, so small! How can I make it bigger?"
If you are on a standard windows based OS, simply press Alt + Enter to force an application to toggle into a full screen mode. This degrades texture quality however.

"I can't find the way to the next scene transition, it seems blocked off."
It seems that level generation took a day off. Unfortunately, you will have to restart by going -> Pause Menu -> Main Menu -> Start.

"I went through a room transition and now my camera is not on my player."
At certain framerates a room transition will sometimes trigger twice, if it's a wednesday. Again, the only real option is going -> Pause Menu -> Main Menu -> Start.