About
Dissonance is a part of my capstone project for the Bachelor of Game Design course. I am the team's gameplay programmer and created the main systems and tools within the game for designers to use in the engine such as an enemy, tower, and enemy wave creator.
Project Info
Role: Gameplay Programmer
Team Size: 6
Time frame: 8 months
Engine: Unity 2022.3.41f1 (C#)
Rhythm System
Dissonance is a rhythm-based tower defense game so the rhythm system is the most important core system as it interacts with all other components of our tower defense game. This system has gone through many iterations gradually perfecting it over the capstone project.
Early Iteration
Early iterations of this system allowed us to complete a proof-of-concept build and showed us a simple version of the game's design. The system rhythm manager was named Conductor.
This version of the system allowed to have actions played on a predetermined beat using Unity's event system.
Issues
This version of the system although simple has its problems. As everything moves on a set beat there is no room for beat results such as miss, late, good, etc. Which caused issues for player controls with movement and interaction with the game. Moving things on a set beat worked for entities like enemies and tower firing if we wanted them to always move on beat but if we want to delay or pause on a beat this system didn't allow that.