The Evolving Chaos system makes use of a game component known as the Chaos Counter. As the game progresses, enemies will become stronger with increased power, health, and abilities.
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The Power Contest system allows for players to face off against monsters in engaging combat, without the need for a game master to pilot them. By comparing a player’s power and dice rolls against a monster’s power, either the player or the monster will strike the other depending on the outcome.
Game Overview
Game Overview
Adventures of Old is a tabletop fantasy role-playing game. Like other classic tabletop fantasy RPGs, the game features custom character creation with various playable races and classes. The game brings a new approach to old-school tabletop RPGs by mixing in new additions such as Evolving Chaos and the Power Contest combat system. The main obstacles in the game are made up of random encounter cards. While facing these random encounters, players are also undertaking quests which dictate which locations and NPCs on the board the players must visit in order to progress the questline. At the end of most questlines, there is usually a mini-boss fight. To beat the game, players must battle their way to the boss’ lair and must fight as a team to take down the final boss. As the game progresses, players will level up, unlocking new abilities and increasing their stats. Additionally, players will be discovering loot, which they can equip to strengthen their offense, bolster their defense, or gain unique buffs.
My Contributions
My Contributions
On this project I am the lead designer and lead programmer. Prior to beginning this project, I had made a tabletop prototype and a Unity prototype featuring basic gameplay mechanics and concepts. Building off of these prototypes, I redesigned some of the core gameplay mechanics and concepts, improving them in the process. As the lead designer, I have designed the 6 playable classes and 7 playable races. I have also designed the core game systems including the combat system, the encounter system, movement system, and leveling system. Additionally, I designed and balanced the 10 unique basic and elite monsters, as well as the 6 mini-bosses and the final boss. In the loot deck, I designed the weapon and armor cards as well as the ring and consumable items. I created the character reference book, and working closely with the lead narrative writer, I designed the rulebook and also helped with the creation of the quests in the campaign reference book. As a lead on this team I have also been in charge of overseeing content added to make sure it adheres to our game vision.
As the lead programmer while we ported the game to Unity, I was primarily in charge of the gameplay systems programming, multiplayer netcode, animation programming, and the UI programming as well as overseeing our github repository. For the gameplay systems programming, I implemented all of the gameplay systems including the movement system, start and end of day systems, the combat system, the card inventory system, the quest system, as well as all other smaller sub-systems. For the multiplayer netcode, I built upon Unity's netcode to build a framework that allows the client players to smoothly connect with the host server player. For the animation programming, I programmed many of the simple tweening and transitional animations for the UI elements. For the UI programming, I connected the animations and functionality to the entire UI layout inside the core game scene. Finally, as the overseer of our github repository, I was in charge of maintaining the code of the other programmers and the functionality of our current working builds.
This is the skill book showing which skills the player has unlocked and can use in the Unity prototype.
This is the combat screen from the Unity prototype.
Prototype Overview
Prototype Overview
Adventures of Old originally began as a personal project in 2018. I first made it as a board game and then turned it into a Unity adaptation. The original prototype game had some major differences from the current version, but it definitely inspired the Power Contest combat system as well as the core loop of movement and encounters on a turn. The prototype Unity adaptation that I built also had some notable features that were separate from the tabletop game. These included online cooperative play as well as AI teammates to play alongside. The planned Unity adaptation for the current version of the game will likely incorporate these features as well.
It was fun designing and making this game as a passion project back in 2018, however, it has been amazing getting to work on the current version with my team. So far I have just been leading the design on the current version, but as we move towards the Unity adaptation, I will be transitioning into the lead programmer to oversee the development of the program. I am planning to use the new Unity Netcode to implement peer to peer online networking for the game. I also plan to create the AI teammates from scratch like I did with the prototype build. Messing around and making cool things has always been a passion of mine, and I love to find places I can incorporate that in with the work I am doing.
In addition to the current build of the game, you can also play the Unity prototype by using the 'Play Prototype' button below. The Unity project of the prototype is also on Github and can be accessed via the 'View Code' button.
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