In the distant future, robotic soldiers called Redbots and Bluebots will defend their robot overlords in post-apocalyptic Japan. Due to a coding error, the robots will arm themselves with traditional Japanese weapons like katanas, bows, and spears. It is unclear which noble robot warriors will take up arms and become Bushidobots.

1. IN THE DISTANT FUTURE, WHERE HUMANS ARE GONE AND
ONLY ROBOTS REMAIN, THE REDBOTS AND BLUEBOTS
PREPARE TO DEFEND THE HONOR OF THEIR ROBO -
OVERLORDS IN THE RUINS OF POST -APOCALYPTIC JAPAN.
HOWEVER, DUE TO AN UNFORESEEN CODING ERROR, THESE
ROBOTIC SOLDIERS HAVE CHOSEN TO ARM THEMSELVES
WITH THE TRADITIONAL WEAPONRY OF THEIR CREATORS –
KATANAS, BOWS, SPEARS, AND STAVES.
WHO SHALL BRING GREAT HONOR UPON THEIR MASTER?
WHICH NOBLE ROBO-WARRIORS SHALL TAKE UP THE
SWORD AND BECOME…

2. BUSHIDO BOTS
Developed by Wyatt Gray,
Shane Daley, and Jeffrey Thomas
Bushidobots.blogspot.com

3. THE PITCH
Mix the gameplay of sidescrolling beat-em-ups…

4. THE PITCH
…with the replayability and competitiveness
Of a multiplayer game...

5. THE PITCH
…infused with stylized art and an of f sense of humor.

6. HIGH CONCEPT
The player controls a
Japanese robo-warrior…
…in multiplayer futuristic
Sengoku-themed battles.

7. GAMEPLAY
 Played on a wired Xbox controller plugged into a PC
 Networked 12-player gameplay

8. ART STYLE AND THEMING
 Flash Style Art
Dan Paladin
 Castle Crashers
Ed McMillen
 Super Meatboy
 The Binding of Isaac

9. THEMING
 Sengoku Period Japan (Samurais and Ninjas)

10. THE OBJECTIVE
 Red and Blue teams battle
for control of a fortress.
 Both teams start with 100
points.
 Stand on a control point to
start claiming it for your
team.

11. THE OBJECTIVE
 Defeating an enemy costs the
enemy’s team one point.
 Each control point your team
owns also slowly drains the
enemy team’s score over
time.
 Win by reducing your enemy’s
score to zero!

12. COMBAT
 Earn gold by defeating other
players
 Spend it on weapons and armor
 Works like counterstrike: “Buy
when you spawn, lose it when you
die”
 Respawn when killed
 Three weapons, three armors
(more planned).
 Each weapon and armor has
unique stats and a special ability.

13. WORK FLOW
Uploaded into
Finished assets
Art assets Unity Project
exported as
created in Flash Folder stored in
.png’s
SVN
Textures are
Create web-player
Test and iterate imported into the
build
game using ex2D

14. SHANE’S ROLE
 Art
 Character and Concept Art
 Animations and effects
 Design
 Gameplay

15. SHANE MADE THIS

16. SHANE MADE THIS TOO

17. WYATT’S ROLE
 Design  Art Stuf f
 Design Doc  Environment Art
 Gameplay  HUD Elements
 Menu Art
 Production
 Scheduling  Sound Stuf f
 Blog  Foley
 Communication  Editing
 Cutting Features  Sound Hunting
 Presentations

18. DOCUMENTATION
 Wrote Design Document
 Maintained Work Logs
 Planned Long-Term Schedule
 Planned Individualized Weekly Schedules

19. COMMUNICATION
 Created and maintained
development blog
(bushidobots.blogspot.com)
 Planned Advisor Meetings
 Handled rescheduling,
general planning
 Created presentations

20. ENVIRONMENT ART

21. MORE ENVIRONMENT ART

22. ENVIRONMENT OBJECTS

23. USER INTERFACE / HUD DESIGN

24. MENU ART

25. MORE MENU ART

26. SOUND DESIGN
 Menu theme
 Goo arrow, collides
 Goo arrow, ends
 Spear on chain, thrown
 Ninja smokebomb poof

27. GAME DEMO
 Add content / slides here
 Don’t forget to add stuf f on slide 13 also, where it says ???
(notes said to mention ex2D)

28. WHERE THE GAME IS (IN DEV)
 3 Armors/Weapons selectable
 Matches are playable
 HUD fully functional
 Mechanics functional
 Menus functional
 Major networking hiccups resolved

29. WHAT WENT WELL
 Good communication
 Pipeline/workflows well -optimized
 Flash into Unity = Cool Art + Streamlined Networking
 ex2D program provides massive workflow shortcuts
 Modular animations
 Robust backend makes adding new armors/weapons easy
 Did not die

30. CHALLENGES WE FACED
 ex2D memory problems
 Challenges with scale of art assets from Flash to Unity
 Little documentation on working between Flash and Unity
 Little documentation on 2D in Unity
 Hand-drawn frames slows asset generation significantly
 Dif ficult to capture isometric perspective for environment art
 Small team + less time

31. WHAT WE’VE LEARNED
 Iteration > Waterfall
 Investigate new tools for potential problems early
 Pace to prevent burnout/ illin’
 Poor organization slows pipeline, fudges scheduling
 Constant full-team discussion a huge boon
 Animations should be made with shortcuts in mind

32. WHAT LIES AHEAD
SHANE
 Alternate heads
 New weapon/armor animations
 Animation iteration
WYATT
 Environment props
 Gameplay iteration
 Sound / Bot Voices
JEFF
 Engine improvement
 Weapon/Armor abilities
 Network improvement
 Bug Fixing

33. BUSHIDO BOTS
Developed by Wyatt Gray,
Shane Daley, and Jeffrey Thomas
Bushidobots.blogspot.com