Echo's Tale
Role: Character Design, Part of character & scene
coding, Ending Illustration, Trailer Video
Tool: Godot, Aseprite, Github, Procreate, AfterEffect
Team: Avery Zhang, QiaoFeng Zhang (Scene
design & coding), Daniel Tiburzi (Sound design & coding)
Instructor: John Bezark
Duration: 2024 Fall Semester
Game Intro
Echo’s Tale is a mini desktop pixel platformer game. It tells the adventure story about a bard collecting magical music power to defeat the evil magician. Players will control the bard to overcome challenges.
On her journey, the bard needs to travel through village, forest, mountains, and finally reaches the evil magician’s castle. She’ll avoid enemies and traps, solve puzzles, and collect music notes to strengthen her magical instruments.
Part of scene components, fonts, enemy characters are free assets from itch.io
Game Trailer
Download & Play
How to play on Mac: Download the file from Dropbox → Unzip the file → Click “Mainscene_Test” disk → Right click “Mainscene_Test” program and select "Open", "Insist to open"
How to play on Windows: Download the file from Dropbox → Unzip the file → Double click and run “Mainscene_Test. exe” program
Concept Sketch
I’m responsible for the bard character design and start with creating concept sketch for bard on Procreate, and also the style for our scene.
Character design, sketches for outfit and animations
Enemy and scene sketches
Character Design
In order to create pixel style and make sprite sheets, I drew the bard in Aseprite, and designed idling, running, and attacking (playing instruments) animations.
Bard character design, idle and running animation
Bard playing guitar, flute, and piano
How to Play
Move with keyboard
A
D
Space
Attack to Break ? Box
E
Interact and Solve Puzzles
Aware of enemies and traps
Game Screenshots
Level 1 - Forest
Level 2 - Mountain
Level 3 - Castle
