Lights Out

SUMMARY

• Role: Programmer
• Status: Completed
• Team members: 5
• Duration: 3 Days
• Jam Theme: Energy Efficiency
• Engine: Unity

Description

A game about a parent trying to save electricity while their kid can't sleep...

Screenshots

My Contribution

Our team comprised students joining their first game jam, so I was the main programmer. The teams were randomized for this jam.

• Gameplay - Toggleable Lights, Interact System
• AI - Patrol Behavior to move between randomized light switches in the house.
• UI - Scene, Menu, Settings, Tutorial
• Tutorial - Introduction to teach the player what the goal of the game is.

Reflection

This was a pretty good experience since the teams were assigned randomly by the organizers. I had a few team members starting their game dev journey, and it was nice to give them a few ideas from art to programming to game design. I tried to give them a few tips and tricks they could implement during their projects, one of them being source control. We had a pretty good idea that was unique but fell short in the voting to another team that had a similar idea. Overall, I made a few connections and was happy with what we achieved.

Features that were implemented

Interact System

• Abstract interface for interactable, and each interactable has its own concrete implementation.
• Player raycast to check if within range of interactable.

AI

• Simple State Machine with waypoints at each light, and executing the interact method.