FYP game - Angus the Shape Shifter

Angus the shape shifter is a 15 a week Final Year created by myself and my fellow team members. The four member team worked together to create a story based puzzle platformer game. In a fantasy world, Angus a scientist Cat knew that another dimension exist in this universe.

Being determined, he did various researches on it and learned about a 2D dimension. He created a portal that allows him to teleport to this world he found out. Angus goal was to collect sufficient evidence to prove his theory is correct all along.

This game idea was thought by the game designer and moulded into a finer shape by my Final Year Project (FYP) Supervisor.  In this game, player has to collect Tangram pieces to form a specific shape and obtain the ability.

There are four ability; which consist of ape, rabbit, bear and mole. Initially, player starts off as Rabbit and finds his way around the world to collect other shapes and use it according to situation.

There is also a new objective that will appear upon collecting all tangram pieces. Player has to find oil as his portal machine ran out of fuel. Player then uses all his abilities to obtain the oil and leave the dimension.

These are overall details. I as the level designer took a while to come up with the level design. Initially the game was extremely challenging to the point that players refused to complete the game as they felt frustrated.

Noticing their frustration, I redesign the level and tried to make it easier for the players. After going through Beta testing, players had a better reaction but still managed to play most of the levels.

 Using their feedback, I worked with my team to modify the levels to a simpler level. It way better to previous complains but players feel challenged while playing the game but they are more than willing to complete the game.

I wanted to blog about this game as I felt proud of it. My team and I worked together to create this game and it was very challenging to pull through when all of us have different view of the game levels.

However, my team members were very supportive and gave me productive feedbacks that allowed me to improve the level and also the sound effects in the level. I was the sound designer for this game too.

The game trailer : 

For further information and to play the game (The game is at the bottom of page), Please visit:
http://durgadevi140894.wix.com/myportfolio#!fyp/c19vu