Astrowage

Game link : https://puffy-pancake.itch.io/astrowage Music in game used: Music used throughout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4uMnX0QfI&t=0s

Astrowage is a game where you gun your way to a escape pod whilst fighting gameshow gambling aliens!

Story: You were traveling through space one day only to be invaded by aliens. But not any normal aliens, gameshow aliens! Now it is up to you to run and gun through various floors to make it to the escape pod.

Roll your way to the top with the board game like elevator with randomised levels. Gain new weapons to help you through your run or gameble your coins at the slot machine for hearts or shield. My main goal for this project was to make a game that was technically challenging for myself to create, I wanted to make everything in the game as randomised as possible to fit the theme I was going for , whilst still maintaining some control of the direction of progression so the player has a reason to play.

What I think went really well in this project is that I managed to achieve a lot of the random factor I wanted out of the game to be present. I am also proud of being able to create a game that functionally works from start to end to a standard that I deem polished. However though this game I do feel has a need for improvement, especially in the audio side as that is my weakest skill in games development. I do also believe there could have been more variety in the enemies and potential upgrades the player could get in a run which would make the game much more replayable. Though for what I managed to achieve in 6 months I have learned a lot more about unreal engine and really pushed my capabilities to create the best game I could with what I had. I will also be updating my itch.io web page with devlogs to make any improvements i feel is needed for the game so go check it out!