Root Tracer

Trace your family lineage in this action game about finding your roots! Journey through time as the mysterious warrior Branch and fight through hordes of purple time-ghosts.

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Genre: 2D RPG
Role: Lead Sprite Artist, UI artist, UI coder
Platform: PC
Engine: Unity
Time: 7 days
Team: 6 members

Roadmap

For this project I took more of a lead role. Designing the story and the mechanics to the game. I Usually prefer to work under someone else and really put my feet to the pavement. But for this, I enjoyed what I did and learned how to communicate with others better when expressing ideas.

Using tools like trello. discord, and google sheets to communicate and allocate work within the group was very helpful. While explaining I was able to draw diagrams and utilize other game ideas to help get my group on the same level of understanding. A big issue with working in a group I noticed is even with how detailed you verbally explain an idea. There's still going to be a difference between people with their thoughts of it. So with this project the finished result was proudly everyone's idea on how the game would look and it came out very well. This game won us 2nd place at our global game jam location.

Notable Code Block:


Due to having a more leading role for the story and design of this game I didn't get the chance to do much heavy lifting code. But I was able to reuse my code from reppa for the health bar utilized in this game. You can see that code here.