This final block at BUAS, we finally got to work in a multidisciplinary team!

Our team of four programmers, four designers (one of which acted as producer), and five artists worked together to create Techauni!

We started with a base game (Nidhogg) and selected an art theme/location/style (mythological industrial cyber-fantasy) and worked from there. We quickly settled on taking the mythology of the Aztecs.

We got to work:

• A character striketeam worked on the central combat mechanics, the models, textures, animations and VFX of the characters, and the AI opponent behavior.
• An environment striketeam, meanwhile, made the level blockout, and dressed it with beautiful assets, while programmers worked on fog and water.

Personally, I worked on the dynamic player-water interactions. I applied drag and buoyancy forces to the players wading through the water

I'm very happy with what we managed to accomplish over the past two months. The game looks, feels, and plays great! Every team member was dedicated to making this game the best it can be (GotY!!), and I'm definitely looking forward to collaborating in a team more often.

There is always things that can be improved. I would have liked to spend a little more time on learning Niagara so I could have had truly interactive water, but this didn't make it into the game in the end. This is also the first time working in a team at BUAS in an official capacity for all of us, so there were plenty of dynamics and collaboration to figure out, but given all that, I think we did such an amazing job!

I'm going to stick around at BUAS, so there will be another great game uploaded to Itch next year, that I'm really looking forward to working on. I'm also planning to set aside some more time for more personal projects in the upcoming academic year, so expect my Itch page to continue to fill up!

All in all, this was a very valuable experience and I'd love to make more games in the future with each and every one of my team members!

I wrote this post 3 weeks ago, but it appears I forgot to publish it, so here goes: