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Description
Starfisher is a 2-4 player party game where players compete to bring more hooked jellyfish to central anemone within limited time. They can disrupt other players with hook or starbomb.
Contribution
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Hosted booth to showcase the game at GDC 2026.
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Designed core gameplay mechanism and PVP competitive interaction.
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Designed level greyboxes of the arena map, implemented environmental assets.
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adjusted lighting and shader to achieve the best mood for each state of gameplay.
Controls
LT/RT
direction
button A
star hook
Submit to central anemone
button B
starbomb
hook jelly fish OR disrupt other's trail
Stun other players
LEVEL Design
Grey box to Environment
Level Design
Greybox
Environment w Assets
Stylization
Art Style
A cute and silly style that's suitable for party game, 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
Dynamic length change controlled by script
Rocks
Handpainted
textures
Jellyfish
ANIMATION
Animated in keyframes, but tried to mimic a ragdoll-like effect
Swim Loop
Impact
Jellyfish Idle Loop
Tech ARt
Shaders
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.
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