Rogue Scribe (Ludum Dare 58)
Overview: Dynamic action-parkour game made in Unity, focused on modular movement and spell systems.
What I Built
- Architected systems with Zenject DI and ECS-like design approach.
- Built modular ability/inventory/AI structures.
- Created highly composable state and spell systems, enabling rapid creation of movement states (wall run, gravity shift, dash) and spells (geyser, fireball, laser).
Project highlight
- Implemented a Zenject-backed infrastructure state machine for the whole game: typed lifecycle states, payload-driven transitions, and routing Update / FixedUpdate / LateUpdate into whichever state is active.
- Built a graph-based gameplay state machine with conditional and catch-all (“any”) edges, state history, and multi-instance support (same state type, different index). A factory assembles machines from a flat list of StateConfiguration entries.
- Composed the player controller from the same core using ScriptableObject movement configs (BaseMoveStateConfig): each asset adds its own states plus a transition table, so a new mechanic set is mostly new configs, not a rewrite of the engine.
Challenges
- Created a state-machine builder system for the main character where gameplay changes significantly depending on which state configurations are passed as input.
- Built many mechanics in a short jam timeframe by using composable logic blocks for reusable movement and spell behavior.
- Kept architecture clean under rapid iteration pressure by applying modular boundaries and dependency injection.
Results & Impact
- Jam-ready gameplay with multiple movement and spell combinations.
- System design supports fast feature extension.
Tech Stack
Unity, C#, Git, Zenject, Performance Profiling, Memory Management, ProBuilder, FMOD
Links
GitHub:
Mirik_LD58
itch.io:
rogue-scribe
Ludum Dare:
LD58 Entry
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