Xentus was originally planned to be a big game. For our Game Capstone 1 project, my teammate, Carlos, and I experimented with mechanics that we wanted to have in our dream version of a game someday. However, many of our ideas  transformed over the time we spent on this. More than anything, this was more of a project to discover and experiment with what works and what we believe would be fun and interesting.

All of the assets in the game were made completely from us with the exception of the post processing image effects from Unity Technologies. These included shaders that performed HDR tonemapping, motion blur, anti-aliasing, and screen space ambient occlusion effects to enrich the graphics of the game.

This game prototype mainly comprised of:

• 3D game world
• Combat largely driven by animation
• Voice-acted non-player characters (NPCs)
• NPC- and item-driven quest system

Carlos' Experience

I did all of the programming for this game, mostly in C#, along with a bit of Xml to store data for the game. It came out to about 14,000 lines of code, which includes but was not limited to the following:•    Handling of player input from the keyboard and mouse and from a joystick controller

• Loading of Npc characteristics from an Xml file with data about how each Npc is involved in quest
• Loading of all quests from an Xml file that includes all the conditions to advance each quest in each given state.
• Player's inventory system
• Enemy AI for going after and attacking nearby potential targets
• Basic, first water shader to reflect the environment Camera's movement function

Earlier in the project, we used capsules and cylinders in place of our characters. Below, an example of our dialogue system was shown before characters were put in: