Description
Mega Macho Brothers was a game developed as part of the GAM200/250 module at DigiPen Singapore. It was developed by a team of 7 full-time students over the course of ~ 6 months, including pre-production.
It is a 2D co-op action platformer where players take on the roles of Marko and Pedro as they fight off an alien invasion. Players can grab and throw their “Brothers” while defending the city from invading aliens.
Gameplay Video
Main Responsibilities
My main contributions to this project were as a Producer and Programmer.
Production
I managed a team of 7 members: 1 artist, 4 programmers and 2 designers. It was the first time I formally worked on a project as a Producer and while I learnt about about good practices, I also made a lot of mistakes along the way.
Initially, meetings were carried out in a “semi” Agile style, with entire team meetings only happening when a major feature/milestone was completed, and I needed everyone’s feedback on the next milestone. Once I realised that progress was difficult to track, I enforced weekly meetings that also served to keep members updated on progress of each department.
HacknPlan was also used to help visualise the progress of features and bugs, helping tremendously in assessing how the project was progressing.
Programming
On the Programming side, I worked on
- Entity manager
- Serialization
- Audio system
- Level editor, created with Dear ImGui and had features like
- Drag and drop for asset swapping
- Nested tree view of the scene
- AI editor interface for modifying enemy AI
- Gameplay mechanics
Awards
DigiPen Game Awards 2019
Winner - Unity Best Sophomore Game
Finalist - Best Music and Sound Design
Finalist - Acronis Best Team Spirit
Gallery
Download
Check out the game at the DigiPen Game Gallery.