Fragment of Hope is a Quake inspired top-down rougelike. Transverse through maze-like levels, smash barrels to collect coints, and upgrade your character and weapons to make it through the 9 battle gauntlet.
20 unique enemies with unique attacks, movement and defenses.
4 weapons each with its own special capabilities. Each weapon has 2 major upgrades and 6 minor upgrades
Find or buy items to upgrade 39 different stats for your character
Grid based procedural level generator with varying size rooms
Step 1
An initial grid of corners are instantiated
Step 2
A level blockout is instantiated
Step 3
Walls are instantiated at random
Step 4
Required rooms are placed into the level
Step 5
Optional rooms are filled around the required rooms
Step 6
Various fixes are applied. Notably any rooms that are inaccessible have doors added.
Step 7
In the final step rooms themselves are instantiated
Examples
A few more example levels
What I learned
The biggest thing I learned when working on this project was a hard lesson on technical debt. This was originally a much smaller scope game that was made in about a month. That project was completed without a hitch. In doing so I stumbled upon an idea for a long term game. So I copied the project and set to work. The problem was every piece of code was written with a 1 month time span in mind. After putting many more months into this project I realized it quickly became more difficult to maintain. The entire project needed a refactor with long term devevlopment in mind. I should have started this new project from scratch instead of using the old project files.
