Alta Terrore

Alta Terrore is a Point & Click Survival Horror game created by a team of students, consisting of 3 designers, 3 artists, and one part time programmer. While playing this game, the player is able to play through two modes; Story Mode and Challenge Mode.

In Story Mode the player is tasked with completing short tasks, which introduce different creatures the the player must subsequently defend themselves against for a short period.

In Challenge Mode the player must defend themselves against the threats they face in Story Mode for a longer period. Doing so rewards them with points that they may use to purchase some upgrades to change how this mode plays in a variety of ways.

Concepting

The idea for Alta Terrore was created by Sophie Pearce. After she pitched it and I joined her production team, we quickly got to work on improving the idea. We worked to refine the pre-existing ideas into something more tangible and added in some new things. After our first feedback session, we knew that we needed some more guidance for the player, so we came up with the idea of story mode, which was not included in the original concept. This mode was designed to introduce the player to the different enemies at a slower pace than challenge mode, giving the player hints about how they might repel each monster before they must survive an hour against them

Implementation

Throughout the project, I spent quite a bit of my time working in engine, going through and implementing everything into the game. I mostly worked in implementing functionality, such as the movement between rooms, making sure that everything worked as it should.

Programming

This project had the unfortunate handicap of our programmer only working with our team part time. Since we only were able to work with him half the time, I had to fill in and do some programming of my own. I was in charge of most of the programming for story mode, worked expanding upon some of our programmer's pre-existing systems and did a lot of bug-fixing. I also did the audio system.