Stellar Forever
Stellar Forever is a 2D-Side scrolling Action game, student made, in Flash. The player takes on the role of Stella, who must find her way out of the Midnight Kingdom, but not before she fights through the Princess' prized pet.
I took the role of Gameplay Designer/Programmer; my job was to make sure that Stella felt cohesive with the rest of our game and its elements, as well as feeling right for the player to use. During the production cycle, we went through many iterations of how Stella would move and jump, which changed everytime we got a step further (more background art, refined boss fight, added actions). The main challenge was keeping it so that she could still function alongside the rest of the game.
My job was to create our main protagonist, Stella, into a ‘fun to use’ character that worked well with the boss. In our final product we were able to achieve that goal. We concentrated on making Stella’s action-tree concise, by giving her actions that can easily transfer from one to the next, but still providing enough of a variety to the player. This was done to compliment our complex boss design and allow for more time polishing Stella to make her ‘feel’ as comfortable to the player as possible.
