Brandon Liew - BOOP - Beat em' up

BOOP

An action arcade game where you step into the shoes (or fins) of a Reverse Mermaid that happens to be a boxer that fights Boxing Bears.

BOOP is a 3-month solo project. The goal is to practice moment-to-moment combat design & build a minigame in an engine I have not worked with before - Unity

In this project, I focused on

Mechanic & System Design
- Movement & Combat Design
- Enemy Design
Programming

BOOP Gameplay

Below I will showcase some of my thought processes behind each major design decisions.

Movement and Combat Design Intentions
Enemy Design Intentions

MECHANIC & SYSTEM DESIGN: COMBAT PHILOSOPHY

Great moment-to-moment combat comes down to 2 pillars:

Feel Good Gameplay
- Responsive & Seamless Controls
- Quality Mechanics that are strategic
- Satisfying Audiovisual
Thoughtful Gameplay
- Enemy variants that challenges the player's decision making in utilising different mechanics, helping reduce repetitiveness in the gameplay.

COMBAT SYSTEM

The base combat kit comprises not only of a basic melee punching mechanic but also a charging range attack.

This is done to enable players to

have another mechanic to use during gameplay, reducing monotony
deal with dangerous enemies that are positioned further away

Another enemy mechanic in this game is stagger, where they will flinch when damaged, interrupting their attack wind-ups. This enables players to use ranged attacks strategically to take advantage of the stagger system.

Basic Melee Attack

Charging Range Attack

Enemy Stagger Mechanic

ABILITY SYSTEM

As player kills enemy, they will receive charge points. These charges can be turned to AOE abilities as shown above.

Beyond the satisfaction of feeling powerful, this is done to give an additional layer of

motivation for player combat.
strategic decision-making, making gameplay more thoughtful.

'POW!' Ability

'WHAM!' Ability

MECHANIC & SYSTEM DESIGN: ENEMY

THE SNIPER

Besides the two basic melee enemies, another challenge is a range enemy who locks onto the player’s position immediately, charging up before firing a fast and precise shot. This disrupt the player's usual combat routine, forcing them to constantly reposition while engaging the enemy, making gameplay more thoughtful.

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