GAME · UNITY 6 · 2025GameCOMPLETED

Journey of Vaja

A 2D action RPG made by a team of three. I drew most of the main art, composed the scenes, did the rigging and animation, and wrote the player control.

Type: Course project · team of 3
My part: Project head · art · animation · player control
Engine: Unity 6 · 2D Animation + IK
When: 2025-02 → 2025-03

Celestia Crystal Cavern · frame from the recorded build

A playable build, demoed for the course.

Player control, scene scrolling, UI logic, scene management and the save system.

FILEPlayerController.cs370 lines

Gameplay · 51 s · no sound · cut from a recorded build

From the sheet to the scene

The map art was drawn as sheets of separate pieces, then composed into scenes in Unity.

Forest map-art sheet: ground strips, grass, rocks, stone slabs, plants, branches, two trunks, two trees and a small Vaja sprite, each on its own — **Forest map-art sheet** Pieces like ① the trunks, ② the stone slab and ③ the grass strip are what the Westbrook scene is built from. Game source art · 4000 × 4000, shown reduced

Westbrook Stonescape scene — Westbrook Stonescape · scene composed from the map art

Vaja holding the crystal staff — Vaja and the crystal staff

Attack, frame by frame

Rigged with Unity 2D skeletal animation and IK. Scroll through Vaja’s first attack: these are the 10 frames exported from the build.

01 / 10 Vaja · attack1 · 12 fps

Who did what

Me: Project head. Most of the main art (map art, UI art, the crystal staff), scene composition, skeletal rigging, IK and animation; player control, scene scrolling, UI logic, scene management and the save system.
Team: The main concept, game design and story came mainly from a teammate. Teammates also made the effects and some of the skill art.
External assets: Some assets came from outside the team.

Outcome

A playable build, demoed for the course.

Current state

Finished as a course project in March 2025.