​​​​Martin Rodriguez

This is a personal project called "Sir Cle" that I am helping make along with other programmers and artists who go to the Art Institute of California - San Francisco. We are using Maya for the models (which I have yet to show, still waiting on the art team) and Unity/C# for the game itself.

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The game is a 2.5D platformer, and we are aiming to have similar controls to "Little Big Planet" where the player can swap in and out of lanes, towards and away from the camera.

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My role on the project is Lead Programmer, meaning I control the GitHub and delegate the other programmers. So far, it's been a great process. Programming wise, I decided to code all aspects of the player: 

• Player movement/jumping/rotating/etc. (with many public options in the Inspector for the game designer to tweak)

• The lane swapping mechanic (with the ability to cross 2 lanes at once, instead of one. This mechanic is set on a timer, using an IEnumerator, so the player can't constantly spam the 2-lane swap to dodge enemy projectiles.)

• An under-shadow of the player (similar to Mario's shadow in "Super Mario 64". For this, I used Unity's Projector component with a soft shadow.)

• Made player-obstructing objects turn invisible and visible depending on if the camera can see the player (originally I had used a shader to display the silhouette when the player is behind an object, but the game designer wanted the objects that block the player to fade away.)

• Projectile shots the player can shoot forward, with an ammo counter. (also set on a timer so the player can't spam shots.)

Some things I'd like to improve and work on for the next time I update this webpage:

• Add a slow alpha transparency so objects don't suddenly disappear, rather have them fade into invisibility. As it stands now, it's quite jarring.

• Lerp the lane swapping. Right now when the user presses 'W' or 'S' to swap lanes, it's a sudden transition in the Z-axis, rather than a smooth transition between lanes.