Come Hell or Holy Water
Surprise Studios
Sep 2023 - May 2024
Unity 3D - (PC)
Come Hell or Holy Water is a PvP roguelike party game in the wild west where you make pacts with angels and demons for power. It features procedural level generation, thirteen unique “Pact Upgrades“ and six unique weapons.
Roles & Responsibilities
Creative Director/Pixel Artist
Ensured worked was cohesive throughout the title.
Developed ASG and maintained it throughout the project.
Made hundreds of pixel art weapons, environment assets, animations and VFX using VFX Graph, Aseprite and SpriteMancer.
Wrote pixel art shader graphs to turn raster images into pixel art.
Tech Designer
Designed and prototyped progression system and fourteen unique abilities.
Developed custom multiplayer UI interaction system to allow efficient interaction between multiple cursors.
Balanced weapons and upgrades using crosstables.
Developed CSV importer tool to speed up weapon development and balancing.
An example usage of the CSV to Scriptable Object tool that allows us to make large balance changes and new weapons in a flash.
When a player collects enough souls, they "ascend" becoming an angel or demon and the final boss for the other players.
Environments are randomly generated using base scenes with random population of environment assets.
I made numerous shaders in shadergraph, such as this hit-effect shader!
The custom multiplayer cursor system gets used here when players make a pact with the angels or demons.
Players can purchase a variety of weapons from the merchant, who's stock changes each time you see them, so act fast!
Some environment assets.
Tilesets
Some of the VFX from various Pact Upgrades.
This lightning effect uses a combination of VFX Graph, a pixel art shader and a SpriteMancer animation.
This spellcast VFX was made in SpriteMancer and Aseprite.
Chaining explosions together can be a blast!