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Computer Game Development and Design 2025/26 fall

Echoes

Description

Echoes is a top-down roguelike where bandits have stolen the stun. The player takes it upon themselves to break into the bandits' high-security facility to take back the sun.

With no light, the player must rely on visualized audio cues to find their way around.

Download

Our Milestone II and final game are found on our itch.io page. https://ukumk.itch.io/echoes


Milestone 1

Tasks completed during milestone 1:

  • Come up with and refine core game mechanics (visualised sound)
  • Set up a version controlled unity project
  • Add core functionality for a player, walls and enemies movement
  • Add core functionality for visualising walls, sound with and without line of sight
  • Add core functionality for player and enemy attacks

Screenshots:


Visualisation for 3 different sounds

Visualisation for attacks and eliminations (enemies have similar attacks)
Color Palette
UI Mockups
Milestone 2 plan

Tasks for milestone 2:

  • Add menu and other UI
  • Add complex enemy behaviour
  • Add items
  • 🇵🇱Polish🇵🇱 features implemented in milestone 1


Milestone 2

  • Huge refactor, our codebase is modular and can be easily developed from now on
  • Dataobjects for items, enemies and rooms
  • Shader for lighting up edges of walls
  • Complex enemy behaviour
  • Sounds
Milestone 3 plan
  • Add more items
  • Make rooms progessively harder (overall level design)
  • Better graphics and assests for doors and items
  • UI for selecting upgrades/items


Milestone 3

<List of tasks you've completed for Milestone 3>
<Screenshots of your final game>
<Trailer video>

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