Pets vs Polygons

My Role: Producer

• Setting up the team with a GitHub repository; teaching team how to use version control and document/push/pull changes

• Documenting and organizing basic economy and stat balances, UI design, scripting logic; organizing and maintaining Unity scene hierarchies and project folders

• Creating and maintaining a simple progress tracker (Google Sheets, simplified kanban structure)

• Maintaining a personal dev log, documenting progress, changes, bugs, and scripts

Team Challenges:

• Balancing workload for a team with one artist and one programmer

• Steep learning curves; learning new concepts and skills across different disciplines

• Several team members learning how to use GitHub for the first time

• Communicating large volumes of changes across irregular schedules

My Role: Solo Programmer

• Wrote 100% of the scripts used in the project; notable features include UI, enemy unit AI, base upgrades with hamster turrets, music controller, unit behavior (animation states, raycast and layer sensors)

• Creating dev tools for non-programmers, specifically for playtesting and balance changes

Personal Challenges:

• Working with Unity's animation state machine for the first time and fixing the delay or stutter when changing states

• Ensure that units can't spawn on top of each other or get stuck in each others' colliders