Altered State

Description

Game

  A cards-based roguelike that parodies the 1980s USA cult culture. You play the game as the cult leader and you use your cult members as sacrifices to the gods to defeat the enemies who are depicted as traditional demonic entities.

My Contributions

  In this 2 day game jam, we had a team of 6. I was responsible for the card dragging mechanic, the card management system, the procedural map generation, and the sound manager. For the procedural map generation I did a white board graph discussing with my partner how the algorithm is going to work. Same with sound manager, where we agreed to make it hard coded, so our designer can just call the function without worrying about spelling mistakes or other variables. The sound manager spawns SoundSource components via an object pooling system. I always try to find ways to structure my code with design patterns, but I understand that sometimes it's better to not force it. Also, all my work was done in a sepparate Unity scene and in my own folder, so I can do tests without worying about git merge conflicts.

Soft Skills development

  We had a well-structured ideation process after which everyone was happy with the idea. I also had the pleasure of learning how to work with an experienced engineer. We planned the structure of the game and our code. For example, we decided to use enums as keys for our sounds in the dictionary (we used a serialized dictionary package) because it will be easier for designers (the dropdown), it's robust, and because the project is small. We had some conflicts where I wasn't sure if we would be able to implement all the mechanics in time, but my engineering teammate assured me that we could. I was convinced by her argument of "these are just juice elements, if we don't make it all, it's fine because we will have the core done", so we moved on.

Credits

Engineer: Ezra Dusselaar
Designer: Thomas Neuweiler
Artist: Jade Izmirlioglu
Artist: Dara Bachvarova
Composer: Sam Waitin