Kanin, swedish for rabbit, is a game about a rabbit on the hunt for the golden carrot. In his way are the hordes of the wilderness, foxes, badgers and much more.

The game is still in its early stages with the basic environment and movements done.
Mouse aiming on pc, dubble jump, wall jump, bouncing on mushrooms, collapsing leaves, spike traps and collectable items are implemented.

Once of the main decisions that are left is wether the game should have one version across all platforms (Windows/Linux and Android/iOS) or if there should be two different games with different game mechanics.
This is mainly because of the limitations on mobile devices touch screen control.
One example is the aim and shoot functionality that works seamlessly on PC with the mouse. While I've created a working "touch to aim and shoot" functionality for the game, I must either shrink the viewable display area (to accommodate space for the control buttons) or ignore the touch input for aim+shoot in the lower right and left area of the display(to avoid misfires when using control buttons).
Another approach would be to separate the aim and shoot so that a user uses touch to aim with the current aim sprite and then a touch button to shoot. Moving ones hand away from the main controls would however decrease the fluidity of the gameplay.

Another solution would be some kind of "aimbot" where the player locks on to enemies. Either by auto-lock or touch-to-lock.

This project is a collaboration between me and an artist. This is the first time that I've closly worked on a programming-project with a non-programmer. It's been really interesting and educational to see how we each approach different problems for different solutions.

Artwork and animations are made by Konatski Art. Check out her ArtStation page here

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Kanin

Screenshot

Gameplay sample

You can find the repo here.

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