Reach The Peak

Reach The Peak is a (singleplayer and/or) online multiplayer Co-op game where you are stuck in an Dungeon. Collect skill books that grant you offensive, defensive, and utility skills to enhance your chances of survival. As you progress, you’ll need to grow stronger to venture deeper into the abyss and ultimately reach the peak of your abilities to escape the labyrinth of dungeons!

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About the Game

This is a passion project where I currently invest most of my time. I don’t have a specific release date in mind—I’m creating this purely for the experience and enjoyment. It’s a small, 2D, top-down, cooperative online multiplayer dungeon-crawler RPG. Although it sounds ambitious and may be quite a large undertaking for a solo developer, I’m committed to the goal and am making steady progress. I plan to release a basic version as soon as possible, with the intention of adding more content through future updates.

As a programmer rather than an artist, creating visually appealing designs isn’t my strong suit, but I’ll do my best. :)

Currently, the gameplay is limited, but most core mechanics have been implemented.

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First Goal

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Player controller

The player can dash to evade enemies, attack, activate skills for offense or defense, and pick up and hold items. All of these features are programmed except for dashing. There’s also a leveling system—players absorb essence from defeated monsters to gain levels. Skills can further boost stats, providing additional ways to strengthen characters.

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Skills

Skills can be active or passive . Active skills allow specific actions, like attacking with a sword or conjuring a stone wall for defense. Passive skills, in contrast, improve stats based on certain actions, such as defeating enemies for combat passives or blocking for defensive passives.

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To gather skills, players must find skill books, which vary in quality and usefulness.

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Inventory And Item system

An inventory and item system is in place, though currently there are only a few items—a sword, some tools, and skill books. The item system is designed for scalability, allowing for easy addition of future items like different swords, armor, and crafting materials.

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Online Cooperative Multiplayer

When I began this project, I underestimated the difficulty of making a multiplayer game. However, with the "Netcode for GameObject" package in Unity, all current features are now functional in multiplayer. Players can connect through a code generated by Unity Cloud Relay service, one friend hosts the game and shares their code for others to join.

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Saving and Loading

This feature is also functional, using JSON to save inventory, skills, skill levels, and player stats.

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Enemies

A basic state machine is set up with several states to initiate AI behavior, though more development is needed to fully flesh out enemy AI. I plan to start with three enemy types but aim to add more over time.

> Small Cyclops

The first enemy players encounter—a young cyclops with a stick, intent on hitting and eating anything that moves. Its movement and attack patterns are simple.

> Red Glareling

This little red ball has laser eyes and attacks from a distance, retreating if players get too close.

> Big Cyclops

Once players have defeated enough young cyclopes, their older, faster, and stronger siblings will appear

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Simple Procedural Dungeon Generation

I have no experience in procedural generation and aim to develop an endless dungeon that grows more challenging as players progress, but since I work on this alone, I don't have the time to do this yet. So, I’m using the Edgar Package, with plans to implement my own generator in the future. While Edgar provides a solid foundation, adjustments will need to be made.

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