Kovari Legends is a game I had wanted to make for over 20 years. It was inspired by the golden age of RPGs on the SNES and Playstation. The first project was to plan as much as possible. I spent 3 months planning the entire game before writing a single line of code. This included outlining 3 novels, a massive world, hundreds of characters and dialog, and over 400 years of history. Next I designed the core game mechanics, such as player leveling and stats, power and magic scaling, an inventory system, tool and puzzle mechanics, dungeon mechanics, weapon and gear scaling, gold and treasure pacing, enemy power scaling, and more. This literally was dozens of spreadsheets and thousands of cells. Finally I downloaded Unity, took a crash course, and started creating the game. I then downloaded Blender, took a crash course, and started designing the graphics. After learning Python, I used Blender's ability to run Python to streamline the process of creating the massive gameworld, using pseudo-random "AI" to save hundreds of hours of manual design. Then I learned AHK (AutoHotkey) so I could run the Python while away from the computer :) I then created the entire UI/UX from scratch, making it as user friendly, smooth, and polished as possible. Next was character design, rigging, and animation, which was done in Blender and Unity. Then I downloaded Reaper, took a crash course, and created all of the sound effects (except one) from scratch. Lastly, I composed a few dozen musical pieces for the soundtrack. There was also a ton of work in between, problem solving, writing complex algorithms, creating Enemy AI, optimizing code, polishing the UI, and more.

Kovari Legends is a classic JRPG, with plenty of action elements, and NON-random battles of turn-based combat. There is a massive beautiful low-poly isometric game world to explore; with plenty of treasures, NPC’s, enemies, puzzles, and other secrets! The party has customizable gear and magic, as well as class specific abilities to learn. There are plenty of consumables to find, buy, AND create, tools to equip, books to collect, and maps to explore (and stamp!) Enemies appear in the game world, and when battle begins, they will use their strength, magic, and advanced AI to attempt to terminate your party! The story is an epic adventure based on THREE novels that has everything from kings to mages, love to betrayal, heroic feats to mass murder. And lastly, the music. Is it even an RPG without a thoughtful, beautiful, and epic soundtrack?

Major Projects

• Story (Project Page)
• Mechanics (Project Page)
• Graphics & Gameworld (Project Page)
• UI/UX (Project Page)
• Characters (Project Page)
• Sound Effects
• Music (Project Page)

Project List

Story

• Outlined 3 Novels
• Created a Full Living World
• Created Hundreds of Characters and Dialog
• Wrote 400+ Years of History and Lore

Mechanics

• Created Player Leveling System
• Created Stat Leveling System
• Created Power Leveling System
• Created Magic Leveling System
• Created Sword Tech System
• Created Inventory System
• Created Item Combine System
• Created Weapon Leveling System
• Created Weapon Enhancement System
• Created Gameworld Mechanics
• Created Tool and Puzzle Mechanics
• Created Dungeon Mechanics
• Created Treasure and Gold Pacing System
• Created Enemy Pacing System
• Created Battle System
• Created Turn Gauge System
• Created Enemy AI System

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Graphics

• Designed Gameworld Objects
• Designed Inventory Objects
• Designed Characters
• Designed UI/UX Assets
• Designed Special Effects

Gameworld

• Modelled Gameworld
• Designed Multi-level Collision System
• Designed Gameworld Art
• Created Blender Python (& AHK) Program to Create Gameworld Sectors
• Created Gameworld and Scene Transitions
• Designed Building Systems
• Designed Dungeon Systems

UI/UX

• Designed UI/UX System from Scratch
• Optimized Code for efficiency

Characters

• Designed Player Character Models
• Designed Enemy Character Models
• Rigged Characters in Blender and Unity
• Created Gameworld Animations
• Created 100+ Battle Animations

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Music

• Composed Dozens of Musical Pieces
• Used A Variety of Instruments
• Produced the Music Tracks
• Composed 3 Variations of Each Piece
• Composed Multiple Jingles

Numbers

• 247,863 lines of code
• 511 script files
• 1,313 scriptable objects
• 6,597 art assets
• 143 animations
• 151 sound effects