Media: Video Game

Genres: 8-bit, RPG, Dungeon Crawler

Status: Published

Start date: 09 Jan, 2023

Release date: 25 May, 2023

Platform: Windows, HTML5

Engine: Unity

Aurelia is a game about 2 jellyfish brothers stuck in the Lumo caves, a dangerous place full of monsters and puzzles that the brothers must overcome in order to try and escape. As they venture deeper into the caves they will come across all sorts of creatures, both friendly and not. Fight, Flee or die in several combat encounters throughout the game. Can you escape the cave before its too late?

Aurelia started production in early 2023 as the second half of a university project. We where given a GDD created by a fellow student Bethany Webber. It was then our job to try and create the game as best as we could, based on the information given in the GDD.

Working on this game my main challenge was organising the diverse and sprawling eco system that are the Lumo caves. Due to the amount of detail in the environmental design it took many hours to organise the environment sprites, player collisions, and animations within the unity editor.

The result includes picturesque scenes in every room and flowing animations that bring the environment and character art to life.

On top of this having to create a dynamic dialogue system that not only reacts to in game events, but also has its own sound system changing pitch depending on the character was a task of its own.

Everyone ultimately coming together to create a unique experience, that accurately depicts the game pitched in the GDD.