Game Project| Nyaa-kuza!!

Game Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1577450/Nyaakuza/

For the past several months I, and a team of 14 other people, have all been working remotely and developing a student game called Nyaa-kuzaa!!. Nyaakuza!! is a 2d side scrolling narratively driven fighting game where you play as an ex yakuza cat traveling on the outskirts of a Japanese city in order to save your catnapped wife.

For the beginning stages of Nyaa-kuza!! The team really wanted to capture the spirit of a game in two parts: a narratively driven isometric view exploration game and a brawler. I took on the role of visual developer/concept artist and I helped establish the aesthetic and atmosphere of the game while also helping with exploring how the in game character sprites would look like and potentially be animated. I also took on the task of creating character pixel assets of the cell shaded character talk sprites and eventually helped with several character pixel sprite animations.

However, my team and I soon realized we had to cut back on the scope of the game , and as a result, we cut the exploration and a lot of my earlier in game assets. I ended up switching to working on helping create environment assets along with some simple environment animations for the game. I also aided in helping color and set dress the fighting levels.

Eventually, I ended up switching up roles again within the team and took on the task of helping write the dialogue between characters during our narrative scenes and then working on reiterating and integrating that dialogue with the existing gameplay.

Over all, this project has taught me a lot about game development and I loved working on it. My team was amazing, and I honestly couldn't have done it without them.