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Erin Hao
Description
Starfisher is a 2-4 player party game where players compete to fish for more star jellyfish. This is a week-long project by a 6-people team.
Goal
Hook more star jellyfish than other players, and bring them to central anemone before being broken by other players
Control
LT/RT
controls L & R direction
button A
shoot out star hook
button B
use starbomb
Disrupt other player by
breaking their star jellyfish trail
OR
throwing starbomb to stun them
Stylization
Art Style
A cute and silly style that's suitable for party game, being family friendly to better suit the audience. I went for a deep iredescent glow aesthetic.
General Mood
Character
Environment
Model & Animation
Character & prop
Normal
Emission
BaseColor
Model & Animation in Blender
Texture in SubstancePainter
Height
Extendable Hooks
Made in 3 parts to allow dynamic length change controlled by script
Rocks
Handpainted Rock textures
Star Jellyfish
Texture maps made for custom unity shader
ANIMATION
Animated in keyframes, but tried to mimic a ragdoll-like effect
Swim Loop
Impact
Jellyfish Idle Loop
Tech ARt
Shaders
Water Shader
DepthFade Subgraph
Screen position & scene depth to determine the distance from camera
Glowing Foam
DepthFade to read object position & scrolling noise as mask to imitate water surface foam
Outer edge glow effect according to object UV map
Refraction Effect
Noise effect on screen color according to screen position
Scrolling Subgraph
Sine time to push tiling & offset, imitate the tide swaying
Water Caustic
Voroni w Noise map & sine scrolling to imitate water caustic
Glowing Water Lily & Anemone
Fresnel Glow & emission as alpha map. Cosine offset to vary from water movement
VFX
Environment
different Layouts
Level Design
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Greybox
>>
Environment w Assets
Models adjusted according to camera perspective
Reflect & Learn
What went wrong?
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What I learned
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