Thelema
(Junior year project at DigiPen)
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Description
Thelema is “a 2D side scrolling shooter featuring fast action and exploration in a futuristic fantasy world.” (from the game design document, hi concept)
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Key Features (from GDD)
- Eleven different areas to explore, each with unique enemies and challenges.
- Intelligent scripted AI using the Python scripting language.
- Simultaneous release for PC, Macintosh, and Linux.
- Hybrid 2D-3D graphics engine for a unique look and feel.
- Multiplayer support up to 8 players, taking place in the same tower as single player.
- 3D positional audio with a variety of aural effects.
- Music performed live by: Queen Floyd Scorpions from Boston Who Journey in a Zeppelin on the Sabbath.
- Multiple levels of difficulty range from “Easy” to “I See God.”
My Roles as Technical Director (on a team of 6)
- Responsible for writing and compiling the technical design for the game
- Implemented a flexible, python-based, script system for the control of entities
- Wrote AI for all of the in-game entities and implemented a hybrid path-finding algorithm for entities which require it including an adaptation of the A* algorithm
- Maintained cross-platform compatibility of the code-base