Anchor Swing — Basic Attack

Shorky's basic attack is a three-hit anchor combo.

Each input advances through the combo sequence, with attack timing coordinated around the animation and damage windows. I worked on the gameplay logic, animation timing, hit behavior, and VFX implementation used to make the three attacks feel like a connected sequence rather than isolated swings.

Implementation Highlights 

• Three-stage combo logic

• Combo input and timing windows

• Animation montage timing

• Gameplay Ability activation and state handling

• VFX implementation and synchronization

Bubble Burst — Special

Bubble Burst launches Shorky into the air, where the player has limited aerial navigation for approximately two seconds before slamming back into the ground.

The landing creates an area attack that deals damage and knocks nearby enemies away.

The ability required multiple gameplay states within a single GAS ability: launch, temporary aerial control, descent, impact detection, damage, knockback, animation, and VFX. After use, the ability enters a designer-tunable cooldown.

Implementation Highlights 

• Multi-stage Gameplay Ability logic

• Ability cooldown logic

• Temporary aerial movement and player input

• Slam and ground-impact detection

• Area damage and knockback logic

• Animation timing

• VFX implementation

Breaststroke — Utility

Breaststroke allows Shorky to swim rapidly through designated areas of the map, significantly increasing his movement speed and allowing the tank character to quickly reposition where he is needed.

Unlike his special ability, Breaststroke has no cooldown and unlimited use.

The utility changes Shorky's traversal behavior rather than functioning as a traditional attack, giving his kit a movement option that offsets his tank-oriented combat role.

Implementation Highlights 

• Movement-state changes

• Increased traversal speed

• Environment-dependent movement

• Unlimited-use utility ability

Slice and Dice — Basic Attack

Her basic attack is a fast two-hit melee sequence designed to feel closer to hack-and-slash combat.

The implementation focused heavily on responsiveness and short attack timings so the player could attack much more aggressively than with the heavier characters.

Implementation Highlights 

• Two-stage combo logic

• Fast combo

• Combo input and timing windows

• Animation montage timing

• Gameplay Ability activation and state handling

• VFX implementation and synchronization

Swirly Whirly — Special

Swirly Whirly turns Lady Ducksworth into a rapidly spinning 360-degree attack for approximately five seconds.

The player can influence the direction of the ability while it is active, but does not have normal full movement control. This created a balance between steering the attack toward groups of enemies and committing to the ability once activated.

The ability continuously threatens enemies around the character and enters a cooldown after use.

Implementation Highlights 

• 360-degree offensive coverage

• Restricted player-guided movement

• Repeated combat interaction during the active period

• Ability cooldown logic

• Animation and VFX integration

Flap — Utility

Flap gives Lady Ducksworth three aerial charges.

Each activation pushes her upward. By timing consecutive uses correctly, players can chain the charges to reach maximum height.

The charges regenerate independently rather than resetting all at once. For example, if the player uses two of three charges, the remaining charge stays available while the other two recharge over time.

The same input also supports a second behavior: holding the utility button causes Lady Ducksworth to glide, while releasing it causes her to descend more quickly.

This made Flap both a charge-management system and a held-input movement ability.

Implementation Highlights 

• Charge-based Gameplay Ability logic

• Individual charge regeneration

• Cooldown and recharge logic

• Press and held-input handling

• Chained aerial movement

• Glide state logic

• Animation and VFX implementation

• Designer-exposed charge and timing parameters

Sweet Slap — Basic Attack

Sweet Slap supports two different input behaviors using the same basic attack.

A normal press performs the standard attack sequence.

Holding the input beyond a threshold changes the attack into a charged version. Players can repeatedly hold and release the attack to perform consecutive charged attacks.

The charged version increases the attack radius, allowing Patches to affect a larger area.

The same hit area is also used for support gameplay: allied players caught inside the attack are healed.

This made the basic attack both an offensive and support mechanic.

Implementation Highlights 

• Press versus held-input behavior

• Charge threshold detection

• Standard and charged attack states

• Variable attack radius

• Enemy damage

• Ally healing

• Animation timing and VFX

Booster Shot — Special

Booster Shot uses three regenerating charges and turns Patches' syringe into a pogo-style movement ability.

Correctly timing the three uses produces progressively higher jumps.

Each time Patches impacts the ground, the ability spawns a healing pool at the impact location. Allied players standing inside the pool can recover health.

The charges regenerate using the same partial-recharge concept as Lady Ducksworth's Flap: unused charges remain available while spent charges recover.

Implementation Highlights 

• Three-charge ability

• Individual charge regeneration

• Timing-based chained jumps

• Increasing jump height

• Ground-impact detection

• Healing-area spawning

• Area-based ally healing

• Animation and VFX coordination

String Lasso — Utility

String Lasso gives Patches a reusable teammate-repositioning tool with no limited charge count.

The ability automatically targets the closest allied player with the lowest health and allows Patches to pull that teammate toward him.

It can be used defensively to pull an injured ally away from danger, but it also creates cooperative offensive strategies. For example, Patches can pull Lady Ducksworth toward a large enemy group while she is using Swirly Whirly.

That interaction was especially important to the cooperative design of the characters: abilities were designed not only around individual effectiveness, but around combinations between players.

Implementation Highlights 

• Ally targeting

• Distance and health-based target selection

• Player repositioning

• Unlimited-use utility

Shield Bash — Basic Attack

Shield Bash is a three-hit shield combo consisting of a left strike, right strike, and final forward strike.

The final hit also pulls enemies back toward the character.

Compared with the other basic attacks, Shield Bash applies a stronger stun effect, reinforcing Hugasaurus Rex's role as a crowd-control-focused defender rather than a pure damage character.

Implementation Highlights 

• Three-hit combo

• Directionally distinct attacks

• Damage and hit detection

• Increased stun behavior

• Enemy displacement

• Animation and VFX timing

Safety Bubble — Special

Safety Bubble allows Hugasaurus Rex to raise a flag and create a protective bubble around himself.

The bubble has its own health pool. Damage that would normally affect players or the Nightlight inside the protected area is instead absorbed by the bubble.

Only one bubble can remain active at a time. If the ability cooldown completes and the player activates Safety Bubble again while the previous bubble still exists, the old bubble is destroyed and replaced by the newly spawned one.

This required managing both the ability cooldown and the lifetime/state of a persistent gameplay object created by the ability.

Implementation Highlights 

• Spawned defensive gameplay object

• Independent bubble health

• Damage interception

• Player and objective protection

• Persistent ability state

• Single-active-instance management

• Cooldown-controlled replacement

Clangl — Utility

Clangl uses a 10-charge system.

Each activation creates an area that stuns enemies within its radius. If the utility input remains held, the ability can repeatedly activate after a short delay, allowing players to rapidly deploy multiple stun areas.

Spent charges regenerate over time using the same partial-charge recovery concept used by the other charge-based abilities.

Implementation Highlights 

• 10-charge ability system

• Individual charge regeneration

• Held-input repeated activation

• Controlled delay between activations

• Area spawning

• Radius-based enemy stun

• Designer-tunable charge and cooldown values