This is a mod for the game People Playground that I created with some friends for fun. It adds over 50 iconic Marvel characters and their powers. It was one of the first mods that added powered characters among other things.

I did all the code related stuff as well as any art outside of the mod (Logos, UI, thumbnails, etc).

The mod ended up gaining a bunch of popularity which ended in us gathering a community and releasing a bunch of updates

Responsibility's

2D Art/Graphic Design

-Character sprites (5 characters in total)

-Item Sprites (4 items in total)

-Logos (including most update logos)

I had other artists for this project so I only did a few art related tasks.

Programming

-Character powers (Hulk, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Ironman, Groot, etc)

-Syringes that give people powers (give anyone in the game any of the mod's powers)

-Custom characters with fully custom joints and limbs (including flesh and bone layers)

-Cape physics.

-Custom items (iron man suitcase, custom guns and melee weapons)

-Unity particle system exporter (to make particles in unity and import them into the mod)

-Unity collider exporter (to give custom items more accurate colliders from the editor)

-Custom power menu (switch between multiple powers)

-Skin selector menu (Allows you to change a characters costume)

I created all of the scripts in C# using Visual Studio and was the lead programmer on this project.

Community Related

-Managing a discord server (Currently has 400 members)

-Curating fan suggestions and adding them into the mod

-Making trailers for updates (video editing)

I no longer make trailers since we expanded our team with a new editor.

What i achieved in this project

1. Unity Coding In An Existing Game

I had always coded games from scratch so working within an existing game was a challenging but fun experience. I had to decompile the games code in order to learn how the systems work and communicate with each other because the game doesn't have much documentation for modding.

I also got the chance to be the first person in the community to do things such as cape physics and custom UI.

2. Powered Characters

The main focus of the mod was making people do the same things that iconic Marvel heroes could do. Spider-man and shoot and swing from web, wolverine has claws that slide out if his hands and Hulk can... Well, HULK!

3. Syringes That Gave Anyone Powers

Not only did I code powers but I also allowed users to give those powers to any character in the game! If you spawn the hulk syringe and inject someone with it, that person can go into Hulk mode, same with the web slinging, wolverine claws and any other power in the mod!

4. New Custom UI Menu

I created a power menu that allows you to view a character's powers and swap them for others or just plain disable/enable them. This was quite a hard task as at the time as i couldn't use unity's editor and so i had to code the UI from scratch.

I'm also developing a framework that will allow people to use my power menu for their own powers, all in the same menu!

5. Managing A Team And Community

Non code related, The project was my first time working with a team (4 people) and managing that kind of environment was really cool, we all worked together to make sure that we shared the same vision and talked out any of our worries or frustrations.

since the mod became so popular we actually managed to gather a following. We have a discord with 400 members and do fun events, take suggestions for the mod and host livestreams showing off trailers for our new updates to the mod. Honestly it is one of the funniest parts of the whole project! :D

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