I was responsible for various character abilities and their associated mini-games. This meant implementing and synchronizing character animation and effects with UI timing focused mini-games.

Involved in its production from design stage to final implementation. These puzzles had the player moving around small towers along grid-based tracks that would reflect a light source in a specific direction. The player’s goal was to arrange the towers to reflect light into the Light Pyramid to complete the puzzle.

This was a very fun task to tackle at the time: figuring out how to cleanly reflect the light, handle smoothly snapping towers to grid spaces, dealing with looped reflections, and resolving color combinations of different lights.

I had a lot of fun creating the bosses and their sequences, especially the Drill Boss, a mech with two giant drills for arms, packed full of tiny, mean enemies.

I collaborated closely with the Creative Director, not just to implement the boss, but to inject charm into the experience. One moment that stood out was the intro: instead of simply having the player follow a tiny enemy in a straight line, I made the little guy dart through the background, then across the dimly lit foreground. The Creative Director loved it, and it stayed in the final game.

The boss fight itself was a fun design challenge. The mech’s health was tied to the swarm of enemies inside it. You’d first break the windshield to eject a few of them, defeat those to actually deal damage to the boss, and then any remaining mini-enemies would leap back in at the end of your turn to keep the fight going.

Brought over the Cheeseburger Backpack from Save the Light and added new modes/features that conformed to the design of this new game.