Don't Forget Your Umbrella

Inspiration

• Each of us wanted to create a game and felt we could leverage our combined skills to produce one
• The weather system was initially based on real-world conditions (heat, humidity, pressure, etc.)
  • It was later altered to a fantasy-themed construct
• The dragon battle system is inspired by partially by Dragon Quest
• The wizard battle system is inspired by Magic the Gathering for logic and Pokemon for elements

What it does

• The player defends their kingdom against the Wizard of Weatherland
• Over seven days, the player cycles between
  • Battling hoards of elemental dragons
  • Countering the wizard's spells
  • Preparing for the next day
• If the player survives all seven days, they win!
• If the wizard reduces the town's HP to zero, the player loses

How I built it

• Brainstorm features and user stories
• Compiled a project outline
• Learned GameMaker Studio via tutorials
• Gathered assets
• Composed code
• Published working code to GitHub
• Polished features
• Published finished product

Challenges I ran into

• Learning a new language
• Gathering assets
• Task delegation

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

• Building a bare-bones game
• Implementing all basic, desired features

What I learned

• How to use GameMaker Studio 2
• Basic game development
• Team collaboration
• Project management
• Time management
• Quality control and debugging

What's next for Don't Forget Your Umbrella

• Game balancing
• Weather effects
• Animations
• Additional weather elements
• Variety of enemies
• Mini games

Built With

• adobe-illustrator
• gamemaker
• github
• gml
• photoshop