The Wall Experience

A Tile-based project, where I implemented 2 new mechanics, one designed by me, and the other designed by one of my peers. The movement system was also modified, to make an engaging escape room puzzle game.

Perspective Switch

Changing the perspective of the game from a top-down view to first person helped a lot in attenuating the importance and functionality of the doors. With that switch, the door animations became much more

Postmortem

What Went Right

Time Management

For this project, I decided to make simpler mechanics and then expand on them. With that, managing the time I had to work on the project was substantially easier. Normally I would have my main mechanic done with a substantial amount of days before the deadline. And after that I would keep adding more polish and features to the mechanic

Organization

With the utilization of the software "Trello", organizing the project was easier. Moreover, from the beginning, I started commenting the code and did my best to keep everything organized.

Source Control

I used Git as source control for this project. And it was of immense help, especially because I was using multiple devices for this project.

Levels

Since I finished my mechanics early, I had a lot of time to work on the levels, and with that, I managed to make some interesting puzzles on the levels.

What Went Wrong

Bugs

There were a lot of bugs that needed fixing. Like the character camera not moving based on the player's rotation, and instead moving based on the world rotating. Or the player getting stuck on a tile after teleporting. However, all bugs were addressed prior to the end of the project.

Video Recording

I'm not the best at recording videos in one take, and since I ended up adding many things when polishing the mechanics. When I went to record the showcase videos, I had to do many takes.

Audio

I didn't have that many resources to get audio from, so the game ended up with less audio feedback than desired. However, by utilizing audio cues, I was able to mitigate this problem, utilizing different versions of the same audio for multiple actions.

Models

One thing time wasn't enough for was models. Originally I had planned to have more high-quality models in the game, however, the time given wasn't enough.

Conclusion

Conclusion: This project was a great learning experience, working on implementing mechanics in an already existing game is pretty different from creating one from scratch. Moreover, learning how the game worked by looking through the code and documentation gave me a better insight into the structure of tile-based games and how they work.