MECHS - RogueLite

About

This is a vertical slice of my passion project that I’ve been working on for one and a half years in my free time. It’s a roguelite sci-fi strategy game where you control a mech and battle other mechs in turn-based combat to acquire new weapons with unique abilities. The goal is to defeat enough enemies to collect nine victory points—but if you die, it’s game over, and your save file will be deleted.

As an inexperienced hobbyist game dev and a student, I originally started this project as a challenge to make a game in one year. But, as often happens in game development, the scope and complexity expanded during development. I quickly realized that I wouldn’t be able to turn this into a full game on my own in a reasonable amount of time. Still, I didn’t give up completely. I decided to at least build a vertical slice of the game I envisioned. I used this project to learn and experiment with things like the async Monte Carlo Tree Search enemy AI, UI/UX design, VFX, shaders, and animation.

I'm not sure if I'll ever finish the full game, but I still wanted to share what I've created so far.

Warning

This is a vertical slice, not a finished game. It hasn’t been thoroughly balanced, and you may encounter some bugs or performance issues. Some quality-of-life features are missing, and the amount of content is limited. Also, I’m mainly a programmer—not an artist—so I relied on game assets. As for the quality of the UI/UX designed by me... well, see for yourself. ;D

Credit

Used Unity assets:

• 2D SKILLS ICON SET - HANDPAINTED
• All In 1 Sprite Shader
• DOTween (HOTween v2)
• Feel
• Free Sound Effects Pack
• Health System by Code Monkey
• Lean GUI
• Loading Screen Studio
• Loot Table - Universal Loot System
• Magic Menu
• Mech Constructor: Spiders and Tanks
• Odin Inspector and Serializer
• Odin Validator
• PrimeTween · High-Performance Animations and Sequences
• Projectile Factory - Behavior Based Projectile System
• Quantum Console
• Sci-Fi Construction Kit (Modular)
• SCI-FI UI SOUND EFFECTS HOVE AUDIO
• Shapes2D - Procedural sprites and UI
• Trails VFX - URP
• Unique Projectiles Vol. 1

Other used assets:

• Eflatun.SceneReference
• UniTask
• Science Fiction Sound FX Pack Vol. 4
• Unified Universal Blur
• Unity URP Volumetric Light
• Enemy AI implementation inspired by these repositories

Special thanks to these content creators:

• git-amend for his Save system, Multi-Scene loading system and other game architecture videos.
• Gabriel Aguiar Prod. for his VFX Graph Shield effect and other VFX videos.