Kill-A-Watt

Summary

Kill-A-Watt was a class project at the University of Washington for Game Development. In a month and a half, myself and two other developers created a fully networked competitive multiplayer game using a custom authoritative server built by our team.

This was my first Unity project. This game set me on my game development path — I had always been interested in game development and had played around with Pygame but never made anything serious before.

What I Did

• Unit Development: Developed the logic and controls for the units sent from towers to attack opposing towers.
• Power-ups: Developed the Bomb power-up — it spreads recursively through units over the network and affects up to 100 units in range.
• Tower Development: Created the logic for handling unit management and tower states.
• 3D Modeling: Towers were modeled in Autodesk AutoCAD and baked into a 2D perspective view, allowing fast art production without wrestling with perspective until after the designs were set.

What I Learned

I learned a lot of general topics on this project: game development, mathematics in games, network programming, state machines, and sprite animation. While nothing stood out as a single "this is what I learned" moment, this was one of the best learning experiences I've had.

Credits

• Erick House — Development
• Gary Mixson — Development
• Aaron Whitting — Design
• Miah McBride — Audio