Edden Forest Demo

Edden Forest is an action-platformer in the metroidvania style and was my capstone project for LaSalle College and it was in development for roughly 9 months. 

The protagonist and prince, Jonah, ventures forth to the 3 great temples scattered around the kingdom of Aesthyria after a terrible disaster known as "the Crawl" corrupts and desecrates the land, and demons appear to revel in its wake. He hopes by reactivating them, he can restore life to his dying land and rid it of the Crawl.

The current build includes:

• A basic movement system built from the ground up including a prolonged jump/double jump feature
• Combat with a slash attack and 3 spells to choose from;
  • Lightning - A powerful spell which clears all enemies from the screen
  • Icy Blast - A radial attack which blasts everything in a radius around the player with ice, freezing certain environmental hazards and slowing enemies.
  • FireBall - A ball of flame which can be aimed in any direction and fired as a projectile, dealing damage to enemies or burning away certain environmental blockers
• 1 metroidvania style level with many environmental hazards and blockers which encourage player exploration
• A checkpoint system which allows the player 3 chances to keep their level progress when they die
• 3 enemy types;
  • A demon that patrols back and forth and kamikazes into the player, dealing damage and dying on impact
  • A gargoyle that sits in wait for the player and fires projectiles at them when in range
  • A bat which flies at the player when in range dealing damage on impact and pushing the player slightly
• 1 Boss encounter: A fiery demon which causes explosions all around it's arena and teleports when hit by the player

All sound and art assets are from free asset packs or internet image searches. I do not own any of them except for the player's health bar and spell display. This game is not for sale as it is only for use as a portfolio piece to showcase my game design abilities.