Porcupew

Porcupew is my 2D Shooter project for the MSU's Coursera course Game Design and Development 1.

Modifications:

• Changed control scheme.
• Created new player assets to fit theme of a porcupine shooting needles at opponents. This includes the player sprite, quill projectiles (one of six variations selected at random), and the associated sound effects.
• Made new obstacle assets (a variety of bushes, rocks, and tree stumps) and decorative sprites (grasses).
• Switched out all the audio assets.
• Redid menus to fit theme, including artwork. Pause screen includes animated element and replaces the level music.
• Added Credits screen.

DIDN'T get to:

• Fixing performance issues. I changed the control scheme (steer with Left/Right, and always shoot forwards) and it worked great in Unity but the porcupine turned really slowly in the builds, so I reverted it. I'd rather the porcupine move that way... Lesson learned, should have been making actual builds more often!
• Replacing death and hit animations - they are still the ship ones, which is pretty silly given porcupines and frogs.
• Replacing enemy projectile (should be bubbles)
• Significant level design

Credits:

• Created by Irene Nelson
• Most underlying code from MSU's Coursera course Game Design and Development 1, instructor Brian Winn.
• Sound Effects:
  • Player projectile - "Kissing someone and getting hair in your mouth" by pfranzen, used under CC4.0 / clipped segment from original
  • Player hit - "Mud Splat" by breviceps, used under CC0
  • Player death - "bek.wav" by monosfera, used under CC0 / clipped segment from original
  • Enemy projectile - "Frog croaking sound effect" by betterchinese, used under CC0
  • Enemy hit - "Tap on Shoulder" by ArrowheadProductions, used under CC0
  • Enemy death - "Popping noises" by onehugeeye, used under CC0
  • Level cleared - "Powerup/success.wav" by GabrielAraujo, used under CC0
  • Game over - "Fail Sound Effect - Accoustic Guitar" by florianreichelt, used under CC0
  • Win - "Victory Sound 1.wav" by SilverIllusionist, used under CC4.0 / no modifications

• Music:
  • Main Menus - "Life on synthwave" by Mativve, used under CC4.0 / no modifications
  • Pause Screen - "breeze in the forest.wav" by inchadney, used under CC4.0 / no modifications
  • Level 1 - "CD_CONTACT_001.wav" by kevp888, used under CC4.0 / no modifications
  • Level 2 - "CD_PLENITUDE_003.wav" by kevp888, used under CC4.0 / no modifications
  • Level 3 - "CD_LUMIERE_003.wav" by kevp888, used under CC4.0 / no modifications
  • Game Over Screen - "Croaking Frogs" by ez2000d, used under CC0

• Art reference:
  • Pause screen - Leaf photograph by stephmcblack, used under CC0 / created derivative vector artwork
  • Game over screen - Porcupine skull photograph  by Didier Descouens, used under CC4.0 / created derivative vector artwork