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Find A Way Back Up

Find A Way Back Up is a 2D platformer where the player is Bandit the raccoon. Bandit fell in a hole and is trying to find a way back up before he freezes from hypothermia.

Find A Way Back Up is the first game I ever created. The code in it is not the greatest, but it was my messing around in Unity and seeing what I could make out of it.

Design

Movement Mechanics

  • Walk

  • Dash

  • Jump

  • Double Jump

  • Wall Jump

  • Wall Slide

  • Sleep

Other Mechanics

  • Hypothermia timer (stages affect movement)

  • ​Enemy attacks

  • Ice slide

FaWBU_HoverFollow.gif
FaWBU_IceSlide.gif
FaWBU_WallClimb.gif

Art

I used Aseprite to create sprites in a 16x16 pixel art style with small and snappy animations.

tileset_iceCaves.png
PlayerRun.gif
TarAttack.gif
direWolfAttacked.gif
functionTile_campfire[lit,cauldron].gif

My main enemy through all of development was Unity Animator. I did not understand it at all, so I brute-forced animations to play in code.

Newer projects like Cyber Chicken Showdown gave me more time to learn the animator, so this will not happen again.

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Check it out on Itch!
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