Agögé - a 2d game - presentation

Update the 29th of october 2022

Recently added or improved:

• Skilltree system and its impact on the player's stats,
• Player inventory and equipped items and their impacts on tyhe player's stats,
• Player stats and details panel,
• Graphic assets enhancement,
• 3 additionnal enemies (Enomotarch, launching missiles drones  and static turrets)
• Modification of the mini boss animation tree, adding attacks and modifying his behaviour,
• Modification of the boss animation tree, adding attacks and modifying his behaviour,
• Player avatar animation enhancement
• ...

SOON available:

• In november 2022: a video of the current development state of Agögé. This is a WORLD PREMIERE! :) 
• In december 2022: a Playable demo: 1 level plus a part of the main base available!

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TOPIC IN PROGRESS

Here is my final project of the third year regarding my professional retraining as a game designer. It lasted 3 months.

This prototype is a vertical slice representative of  an intermediate level of the complete game. 

Agögé is a mix between 3 main styles:

• roguelite (Dead Cells, juicy gameplay),
• hack'n'slash (Diablo II, so good),
• platformer (Ori and the will of the wisps, what a game!).

Main features, described on the GDD, are:

• Random meteo,
• Random enemies number and locations,
• Random chest number and locations,
• Secret areas,
• Fights against enemies waves,
• Boss fights,
• Loot, find equipments, create your own builds,
• Level up, improve your attributes,
• Enhance your base, crafting is part of the game,
• Skills tree, unlock them and enhance their power according to your playstyle,
• Movement skills to survive the deadly platforms areas,
• Rich stories,
• And so on.

Artistic direction is inspired by the Bruxelles' School ("ligne claire" style). I had taken some liberties with the rules to enhance the legibility of the main assets in relation to the background. 

Lastly, the scenario is based on a cyberpunk universe (Deus Ex!!). It is a rich story dealing with transhumanism . Several endings are possible depending on the player choices. At start, they  abandonned you on Tartaris. You have to achieve your Agögé.

My work was to:

• create a scenario,
  
• design the level,
• create the level thanks to Godot Engine,
• design all the characters (avatar and enemies), create their animations...
• programming their AI (animationtree and code),
• design and create all the assets,
• develop all the interfaces, from the main menu to the in-game interface,
• and so on.

A few assets were retrieved from free contents, mainly a few sound designs.

Softwares:

• Godot Engine 
• Inkscape : drawing
• Krita : drawing for the teaser
• Blender: teaser video editing
• Audacity: sound effects creation
• Musescore3: main menu theme creation

At the moment, I am still working on this project to:

•  enhance the assets to match the artistic direction, 
• add some missing features,
• improve the player feedback during fights or platforms areas.