Soggy Story
- Start Date: February 2023
- Last updated: February 2023
- Team: 2 programmers + 5 artists + 1 composer
- My contribution: programming (player movement, boat movement, ...)
- Genre(s): Top-down, Story, 3D, Adventure
- Engine: Unity
- Platform: PC browser
This game was made for a game jam that lasted two days and a half, but we managed to create quite an impressive game in that
short amount of time. The game is story based, so your boat roughly follows a path towards the end, but you can influence it's movements
by standing on the side of the boat that you want it to move towards. So for example standing on the left will make the boat turn left.
The boat follows a path and has a certain distance it can stray from that path, I made a little tool to place down waypoints that form
a path and have a customizable width, this made it easier for our level designers to create the level.
Making the player able to walk on the boat was a bit tricky. We wanted to parent the player to the boat, so it would always stay attached.
That meant we couldn't use a rigidbody and colliders to make the player movement restricted to the boat because the boat already has a
rigidbody, and having two in the same hierarchy can cause lots of bugs. So I had to write custom 2D collision code that made it so the
player couldn't walk if it would land outside the boat.
Overall I had a great experience and learned a lot about working together and creating working code quickly.
