Slasher

slasher

2018 · Solo project, built during National Service

A side-view 2D wave survival game with run-based meta-progression. Each run drops the player into a pixel-art desert arena to survive successive enemy waves while managing health, ammo, and a hazard-laden platform layout. Runs end, but progress doesn’t: points earned carry into a persistent upgrade and shop system, and lifetime stats — total points, highest wave cleared, total enemies killed, total runs, total playtime — persist across sessions, with a share hook for posting results.

Written solo, start to finish, in downtime during National Service.

Role and responsibilities

Everything — design, programming, and integration:

• Wave system — enemy spawning, wave escalation, and run termination
• Combat and movement — platforming, hazards, health and ammo economy
• Meta-progression — persistent currency, the upgrade tree, and the shop
• Save/stats layer — lifetime statistics persisted between sessions
• Front end — menus, HUD, pause flow, and social share

Learning outcomes

• Carrying a game from blank project to shipped build alone, with no one to hand blockers to
• Designing a retention loop — why per-run failure has to feed permanent progress to stay motivating
• Scoping realistically against limited, irregular free time

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