Development of an RPG with Card-Battler and Roguelike Gameplay Elements

Abstract

Developing a video game is an arduous process involving many different skills besides the basic one of programming. This thesis will document the undertaking of this process from start to finish, on a videogame with numerous distinct gameplay elements. The game in question: called ”Hero of the Dozen Tales”, which for brevity, will be referred to as ”HotDT” from here onward, is a Survival RPG with card-based combat. The game combines many different genres, such as Card Battler, Survival and RPG. These genres were deliberately selected to widen the game’s scope in terms of gameplay systems, which allowed us to document the hurdles and lessons learned during the development of as many common gameplay systems as possible. The game was implemented in Unity Engine. Most of our 2D and 3D assets were made in Aseprite and Blender respectively, with the rest being downloaded from the Unity asset store and a site called Mixamo. The dialogue system was made using the Ink plugin, which with its narrative scripting language facilitates the quick and easy writing of complex dialogue trees