Lights Out

Summary

You play a kid having to study, but your console is much more tempting.

You need to finish three mini-games, to win the game but only problem is that your mom is in the next room and can hear you.

So the player has to finish the games fast enough before the mother comes in.

Project Specifics

Team size: 7 people

Project Time: FEB 2024 - JUL 2024

Roles: Game Programmer, Project Manager

Tools: Unity, Rider, Notion

Prototype

Our interaction system and a system that shows the behavior of the mother were the first things done.

The interaction system was a chance for me to try new things in programming, like abstract classes, inheritance and interfaces because I wanted to improve further in my skills.

Interaction

The player can interact with the book and the console. The book being a way to introduce games that are then playable in the console to keep a high level of immersion.

Lighting

We needed a lot of immersion to get a horror feeling going and a big part of that is the lighting.

We used a very dark environment with a really bright lightning, which is cold white to have a high contrast of colour and light that would make the player feel exposed.

Unity Profiler

Especially important to have a good performance is light baking.

So to see if the performance is lacking somewhere, it was helpful to keep out a look at the profiler which shows where the performance is being drained exactly and fix when needed.

polymorphism

Inheritance & Abstraction

The basics of OOp

Especially abstraction, inheritance, and polymorphism helped me develop more programming skills.

For me, inheritance was a good way to learn and know how to build flexible systems with little effort.

My teamwork

It was new to me working with a team for longer than one semester but because the last time worked that well, we wanted to try again and it was a blast.
I am proud of my team and how we have been growing together for over a year now.

About the Project

"Horror needs good time management and even better pacing."

~ me

It was really surprising to me how much horror comes with the pacing of the game, when something should happen and how far it should happen away from other event to really steer the attention of the player.