Bloody Hell is a 2D Top-Down Pixelart Bullet-Hell Metroidvania, for which the Beta was made in about a month. The game has 900+ Steam reviews and an 'Overwhelmingly Positive' rating.
What started off as a demo for a school project quickly turned into a potential full-fletched game. And because some of our teachers at HKU see potential in my teammates and me, they let us work on this project for about 5 months at Dutch Game Garden.
Music and sounds by Syncontour. Black & White effect made using LUT.
I co-developed the game with 2 others, which meant I wasn't only responsible for the art but with the design as well. I also oversaw the marketing for the game using the game's various accounts on platforms like Twitter.
The biggest challenge of this project was the short timespan of five months in which we wanted to make the game. Because of this, my team and me had to think of a smart and quick style/method which we could use to make all of the game's assets.
Here are a couple of examples of design choices that would let us create and import assets efficiently:
The player's and enemies' hands are not attached to the body, which makes animating a lot quicker.
Most enemies have a variant that is mostly a recolour (and sometimes with some small changes in attributes), along with different attack patterns to keep the gameplay interesting.
All enemies can only look in a single direction, while their weapons aim at the player (so the player still know's which enemies are targeting them).
The use of Unity's Pixel Perfect Camera component let us rotate sprites and place 3D objects while maintaining the pixel perfect look.
The usage of Unity's 3D camera gave us the ability to create a parallax effect which really made the environment feel more immersive.
*Unfinished in-game footage, video & game music by Syncontour. Skull fire, dash effects and blood shader made by Guus Knol, (visually) tweaked by me.
The blood shader was mostly made by another teammate, and we worked together to make the blood seep through the cracks of the tiles. The environment objects/sprites were imported by me, and I used Unity's tilemapping system to automatically tile the walls and holes.
