The Portfolio of Erik Paananen

Projects

EECS 494 P1: Legend of Zelda Unity Remake

• The Legend of Zelda (Unity Remaster) on Itch.io
  
• We built the NES version of The Legend of Zelda in Unity, using C#. Certain assets were pulled from ripping sites, but the code is entirely done without reading LOZ's code.
• What I worked on:
• Sword/bow "swinging" and projectiles (the bow acts like a sword, without collision!)
• RandomWalk and RandomFly for all standard enemies, allowing them to wander in a specific way
• Rewriting the inventory system to be more modular and clean, so that Bombs could be an item like bows and boomerangs
• Gel, Keese, WallMasters, Stalfos, and BladeTraps
• All animations apart from Goriyas'
• Playtesting of custom level
• Cutting out sprite backgrounds and finding the "Link hurt" sound file
• Bugfixing, bugfixing, bugfixing. Some excerpts:
  • Final boss projectile spawning
  • WallMasters flickering (wrong layering)
  • Sword projectiles going flying into 3D... in a 2D game
  • Enemies in the custom level could drop bombs, which would softlock you if you killed your 'test element' with them
  • Final build nearly had a broken door near the end that softlocked the game

EECS 494 P2: Lagswitch

• Lagswitch on Itch.io
  
• This is a solo project, where we had to quickly prototype a game in one week, and then finish the game in week two
• I used Unity (with C# scripting), Krita (texturing), MuseScore (music) and Audacity (audio processing)
• I've had an idea for a game like this for a long time, where lag and disconnecting is a mechanic
• At first I wanted it to be a multiplayer fps game, where somehow lag was an ability the players could use to dodge and ambush each other, but I ended up making a sort of Antichamber/Portal/hammer_space type of game
• I think it came out very well! It's very short due to grading and time constraints, so I may expand upon it in the future

EECS 494 P3: SHELLS

• SHELLS on Itch.io
  
• A fast-paced arcade game where you and one other player fight to the death in rounds of action-packed tank combat. Each round the losing player gets new upgrades that keep things interesting, where each choice can change the tides of battle.
• What I worked on:
• Particle effects
• Sound effect design
• Turret enemies
• First design of the "zoom" effect
• Trailer
• Friendly fire logic & toggle
• Visual clarity improvements
• Plenty of bugfixes, tweaks, and consistency fixes!