The Cliffborn Islands

The Cliffborn Islands is a platformer game developed by two students of the Videogame Design and Development degree at the UPC, a university of Barcelona. You can go to our GitHub by clicking here.

Controls

• A - Move left.
• D - Move right.
• O - Throw the hook.
• P - Attack with the sword.
• Spacebar - Jump.

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Main Core Subsystems

• Map: maps are loaded from Tiled reading an XML file, which loads all the properties and also places all the colliders, enemies and coins in each level.
• Pathfinding: we use the A* algorithm so the enemies can go towards the player with the most efficient path.
• Entity subsystem manages the player, the hook, both type of enemies (harpy and skeleton) and the coins.
• UI subsystem is organized as a tree that has three different elements: Buttons, Labels and Boxes and all of them inherit from a general class, called UserInterfaceElement. Buttons trigger actions, labels are only to show text and boxes are elements than can be dragged through the screen.

Innovation

We have implemented a hook which you need to use to overcome the level. If it collides with a wall, it moves the player towards it.

Authors of the game

Òscar Faura:

• Creation of level 1.
• Load entities from Tiled.
• Creation and implementation of the entity system.
• Implementation of the pathfinding and enemies’ movement.
• Implementation of the in-game HUD.
• Programmed coins, lives, score and timer.
• Save & Load implementation.

Daniel Lorenzo:

• Creation of level 2.
• Controls and mechanics of the player and the hook.
• FPS and normalization of the movement using delta time.
• Creation and implementation of the user interface system.
• Creation of the logotype.

Credits

Art

Sprites and tilesets of character and maps: “Foggy Cliffs - Fantasy Tileset” Nauris Amatnieks.

Music

Music of the menu scene: “Getting it Done” Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

Music of the menu scene: “River Fire” Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

Music of the first and second level: “Airship Serenity” Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

Sound effects

• Death sound: Minecraft.
• Death music: Uncharted 2.
• Player attack and jump: Link from Super Smash Bros.

This game has been created by Òscar Faura and Daniel Lorenzo. Licensed under the MIT License.