Deadly Byte | Devpost

Gameplay overview

Inspiration

We were inspired by the challenge given by Beenox - Create a full 2D game using low-level tech was something challenging that put us out of our comfort zone.

What it does

It is a RPG where the player controls a soldier that needs to survive in an apocalyptic world full of zombies. It includes different types of zombie due to the different mutations of the NecroVirus-X.

How we built it

We used C++ with the SDL library to create an interactive 2D game. GitHub and VS Code was used for the development as a team, and we used Trello & Discord for communication and project management.

Challenges we ran into

Setting up the computers of everyone, as we had Windows, MacOS, and Linux laptops.
Merge conflict: Due to the fact that everyone works at the same time, some pull requests caused some problems that slowed down the development process.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Build a full game with little to no experience.
Make everything from scratch, including the physics.
The character's animated sprite, and the zombies' pathfinding logic

What we learned

C++: Low-level programming language
SDL: Simple DirectMedia Layer
Working with new people: Being able to be efficient as a team even if we don't all know each other prior to the competition.

What's next for Deadly Byte

Map improvement: We can create different levels with autogenerated maps to make the game more diversified and intersting for the players.
Animations: We can add some life to the characters by creating different frames to simulate the movement. We can also take advantage of the parallax effect to make it seems like the background have some depth.