Greetings Traveller!

My name is Paul Bichler and I'm a member of team Red Axes developing the Norse Mythology themed Hack n' Slash game Norsevar!

During this project, I mainly focused on the combat experience, which is the main feature of our game. This includes the design and implementation of combat abilities and attacks, movement mechanics, upgrades, player progression, user testing and evaluation (of the combat system).

My goal was to have an engaging combat system, that gives the player lots of possibilities to defeat enemies and allows him/her to form a tactical plan (analysing the room, and find an optimal way to defeat enemies). For this to work, the player needed to have a diverse choice of combat mechanics to use. Upgrades played a huge role as well, they needed to be interesting and support both defensive and offensive playstyles. The player also needed to have both melee and ranged attacks to maximize the combat diversity.

I spend the majority of my time on this project developing Combat Systems and implementing Gameplay Mechanics for the player.

You can check out my work for this project below.