Mobbers

University Postgraduate

Live Demo on Steam

Mobbers is a roguelike dungeon shooter with randomised items, rooms, themes and enemies. Choose to play as the Goblin, Skeleton, Slime or Kobold and turn against the other mobs in the dungeon to escape the ever approaching heroes trying to loot your home.

This project is currently in development, was presented at Insomnia twice and has a demo available to play for free on Steam!

My contributions

I work as the Lead Programmer and focused on room generation along with overall gameplay elements.

Mobbers Steam

Dungeon Generation

Similar to a lot of rogue-likes, Mobbers has random room generation where rooms are generated by branching off from a central starting room.

Travelling to rooms will cause the doors to lock and enemies to spawn in. When all enemies are defeated, the doors will unlock and chests will spawn within the room for the players to pick up.

Room Generation

Rooms are generated from a 64x64 blueprint that uses the colours of pixels to determine what items are placed. Place items are then rotated and textures are added appropriately dependent on neighbouring parts and theme.

Room parts include:

Walls
Flooring
Chest placements
Traps (wall traps, pits, floor traps)
Room props (decorative, breakable, light sources)

Game Manager

A timer begins after leaving the start room and will countdown until the player is taken to the shop before the boss fight.

When exploring the dungeon, collecting a chest in the room will pause the timer until they leave and enter a new room.

During the shop and boss rooms, no timer exists, the player can only go towards the boss room and then either win or lose the boss fight.

Room Props

Within the room generation blueprint, room props and be randomly placed with following attributes:

1 tile tall
2 tiles tall with players able to go behind the top tile
breakable objects with multiple sprite states

Rooms may also have attached light sources that help with visibility.

Traps & Hazards

Traps can be placed in selected segments on the room blueprint or is randomly placed among the simple obstacles.

Traps can be assigned a type of hazard that will be applied to the player that a base class will control how the players are impacted. Hazards can:

Impact movement
Cause damage
Instantly kill player

Different types of traps can be created that inherit the base class functionality such as:

Timed traps that take set amount of time to be sprung after activation
Destructible traps that will remove any effects currently placed on a player

UI/UX Functionality

Set up the main and pause menus to be able to interacted with using both PC and controllers.

Lead Programmer

As lead programmer, part of my work is contributed by constant communication with other leads and the programming team where I will designate work.

Alongside designating work, I will review the work done through playtesting for quality assurance and discussing with members of the team and will work on minor tasks to help with the progress on team members' work.