Project Ship Wreckers

Role: Game Programmer and Game Designer

Engine: Unity

Company: The Flying Duck Games

Status: Polished prototype completed

Between 2023 and 2024, I contributed to building and refining a prototype for an indie project that is currently seeking a publisher.

The game is a side-scrolling beat-’em-up set in a humorous, cartoonish pirate-themed world, with support for both local and online co-op. As the sole programmer on the project, I was responsible for the entire codebase, and in particular:

Core player character movement systems and animations, especially locomotion and combos (both melee and ranged).
Support for local co-op mode.
AI behaviors for three enemies and a boss, using behavior trees, ticket systems, and crowding algorithms.
Tools for animating and rigging 2D characters, including a shared skeleton for 2D characters, IK setups, and an animation-based event system.
UI, visual effects, and sound.

Additionally, this project gave me the opportunity to level up my game design skills by actively contributing to the definition of enemy behaviors and player mechanics.