Rebound

May 7

I programmed and designed for an endless runner where the player can only indirectly guide the main character rather than control it.
- Served as game designer and the only programmer for this endless runner during a 2-week project in a team of 4 using Phaser JavaScript Framework
- Created the core player mechanics: movement and bounce modes
- Implemented endless falling debris and the pursuing monster enemy
- Assembled the main menu system with an explorable tutorial section
- Provided score counter and high score tracker for a given browser

Narrative & Gameplay Tie-ins

A helpless bunny has fallen into a strange haunted mansion inhabited by a monster. The player is the spirit-butler that tends to the mansion and hopes to guide the bunny back to safety.

The butler is invulnerable to the monster and equipped with 4 bounce modes: high, low, left, and right
Using these abilities, the player ushers the bunny upwards to escape the monster chasing them from below while also navigating through falling debris

With simple physics-based mechanics, the player has a ton of flexibility in how they evade obstacles and manipulate the bunny’s movement. The falling debris is randomly placed and the speed of the upwards scroll increases incrementally. I capped this increase at 1000 points to be the highest difficulty, yet still a friend of mine was able to surpass 3000 points. Nobody has been able to beat that mark, so let me know if you do!