vertical slice
one ninja against an army of demons
overview
Vertical Slice is a vertical scrolling action game developed in Flash 9.0. It was developed by the student group Mindless Entertainment during a Game Design course at Vancouver Film School. My main role on the project was coder, but everyone on the team seconded as a designer. I also created an easy to use level editor so the entire team could create encounters without a strong code understanding.
You play as the Black Ninja, slicing his way through waves of demons in the bamboo forest.
Mouse over the screen and watch the Black Ninja follow your mouse horizontally with great style and aplomb. But the only way to keep the vertical momentum is to chop up the horned demons, so act quick and attack!
The Black Ninja has a throwing star powerup that gives him an extra boost if he can’t make it to the next enemy. Fear not if the Black Ninja fails and goes falling to the forest floor, he’ll be greeted by the heckling old man who pokes fun at the Black Ninjas ability to stay airborne.
Download it here. (Rightclick and "Save As...")
responsibilities
Some of my responsibilities on Vertical Slice were the following:
- Helped conceptualize the vision for the game.
- Contributed to designing game features and mechanics.
- Managed and orginized the .fla.
Having an organized system/hierarchy is paramount to being productive.
- Made rapid prototypes of key features and mechanics.
- Wrote all the custom code in AS 2.0.
Learned to code efficiently using ActionScript 2.0.
- Created and implemented accessible level editor for whole team.
- Tuned and balanced important variables.