About the Game

Aether's Edge was the second project I had the pleasure of working on during my time at the Apple Developer Academy. I worked with 2 other people as a team (Triple Threat) to deliver a command line interface (CLI) choose your own adventure game.

Aether's Edge follows you through a trip to outer space to defeat the evil god king Aether before he annexes all the planets.

At the heart of Aether's Edge, one young hero opens their eyes to see the sun. What will this young hero's name be? In this case, Hana, because it's me. A heroic choice! Hana awakens to the deserted city of Detroit with broken memories on how civilization collapsed. The last thing you can recall is being handed a scroll that holds the prphecy of the chaos to come. Aether's return has caused a mass 'cleansing' of Earth's populatiuon. It's up to you to make your way to Aether's Edge and defeat him once and for all! The scroll also contains basic instructions on finding the necessary materials for you to complete your first quest. <br><br> Do you accept the mission to protect the universe? Yes or no? Click for a caption.

A Curious Kind of Organization

We were only given 8 days to make this game happen, so it was a given that unique kinds of organization would be used... and for my team, that was the notes app! We used it for almost all of our communication, brainstorming, and data storage as needed.

The other piece we used was Trello, which was how we organized what would and wouldn't make it into the final.

A screenshot of a Kanban board built in Trello. Click for a caption.

Hiccups

When a project is due, the only person that cares is... you. And definitely not life. Unfortunately, my teammates were in and out due to life events, and thus it slowed down progress at times, but that's where communication and organization became even more important. Even with those hiccups, because we had everything organized neatly in our note, I was still able to pick up the slack on things that the other's could not. Life does what she pleases.

A screenshot of our shared note. Click for a caption.

Reaching the Peak

Despite the hiccups, we were still able to make a playable game for our deliverable!

I'd love to be able to pick this project back up and complete it sometime as time would allow, but I am certainly proud of what we have created thus far.

You've encountered Zenon! Both Hana and Zenon's stats are: 100 health and 10 power. What would you like to do; attack, focus or defend? Click for a caption.