High Tide is a 2D Metroidvania built in Unity where the player uses magic sand powers solve puzzles and fight enemies exploring the sunken depths of the past in search of a lost family heirloom.
Product Owner & Lead Programmer
Team Size: 9
Scale: Demo
Development Period: May–July 2021
Tools Used:
C#
Unity
Git
Yarn Spinner
Features
- Mysterious sand powers to vanquish foes, shield the player, and solve puzzles.
- Music that changes its layering dynamically.
- Sunken depths full of flora and old structures.
- Player character that swims, runs, and jumps around.
Contributions
- Programmed the player movement and sand mechanics.
- Created a level editor that let the designers and artist save & load the contents for each room, and programmed a system to connect the rooms together in-game.
- Incorporated Yarnspinner for all of the dialogue.
- Coded a system that let the sound designers customize what music layers will fade in or out entering a room by changing the FMOD values.
Development of High Tide
Attending Rad Studio 2021, I worked with a remote team of nine people for eight weeks as
both Product Owner & Lead Programmer. I managed pipelines; programmed the gameplay and level
systems; and taught some of the team Unity, Git, and level building tools I made for them.