Satoshi and the Thousand Samurai is my senior team project at Champlain College. During the project we work in teams which are organized like game studios with students from the appropriate major. Our team, Mentlegen Productions, consists of 1 Game Production major as our producer, 4 Game Design majors as our level designers, gameplay designers, and sound designers, 3 Game Art majors as our 3D and 2D artists, and of course 3 Game Programming majors as the programmers.
I have filled the role of Lead Programmer on this project and I work with 2 other programmers who I manage along with our producer.
Satoshi and the Thousand Samurai is a sidescrolling combat game based around Japanese Kabuki Theater. The entire game takes place on a stage, the dialog is written in 5 – 7 – 5 syllable lines as is traditional Kabuki, and the experience is designed to feel entirely like a play, complete with stagehands who build the sets as the player progresses through the levels.
The game is built in Unity using C#. I designed and implemented the base system, combat system and the AI system, and helped with the design of around 90% of the game’s code.
Fun Fact: I am also the voice actor for the primary antagonist Tsuyosa.