Trickochet

Trickochet is a top-down puzzle game in which the player controls Pancho, a quick-shooting gunslinger, in a quixotic adventure where he faces off against a gang of sentient bottles and cacti, while protecting his own cactus friend, Sancho. Player’s aim to ricochet a limited number of bullets using a wide array of “ricochet-able” objects, such as metallic tables, longhorn skulls, and brick walls. In each level, the player’s goal is to eliminate all the enemies and gain a high score based off the number of ricochets, the number of enemies killed, and the number of stars picked up.

Overview:

Genre: 2D puzzle

Platform: Android mobile

Team Size: 5 developers, 1 programmer

Timeline: 3 months (3 hours per day)

Technology: Unity (C#)

20 levels total, 6 levels of tutorial, 14 games

Single player by touching screen

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Trailer

Responsibilities

Team Unity usage technical guidance
- Unity Animation
- Usage of custom C# scripts
- Version control
- Components research
Programming support
- Simple save & load system based on Json file
- Audio manager
- Game manager
- Level manager
- UI
- Featured components scripts
  - Controllable rotation & movement
  - Multi-type enemies
  - Player Input
  - Projectile movements & prediction
  - Multi-type gameplay devices
Ideas suggestion
- Discuss feature design with designers from a their & player perspective
- Playtesting on each level and come with suggestions

Postmortem

What Went Well

Iterating the scripts quickly after designers changing the requirements
Sharing game design responsibility onto everyone
Reporting bugs immediately

What Went Wrong

Asset lock was not always persisted throughout the process, which led to overworking before the end of a milestone.
Documentation could sometimes be lying on the actual working hours

What I Learned

Scope work accurately, keep the balance of portability and simplification for script implementation.
Keep the documents and projects to be updated
Syncing people’s paces and resolving issues