Ida Rask

Game Programmer

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Ida Rask

Game Programmer

Grandma's Cottage

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Project Description

I took part in 2023 Finnish Game Jam and our theme was roots. We made a 3D platformer with Unity.

The player has inherited their grandmother's cottage and finds a mysterious medallion while cleaning. Little did they know that the medallion was enchanted and now they have to explore the cabin while shrinked to a size of a mouse. By exploring the cabin and examining different items they find more information about their family and it's past, and discovers a long lost uncle.

Grandma's Cottage can be found in itch.io as a downloadable.

My part

Heta programmed the player movement so my job was to make it possible to interact with different items.

Programming

The original plan was to make cutscenes for start and end of the game but due to the shortage of time we decided to just make two scenes with dialogs

Interaction with different items works with raycast and interacting with an item gives the player a text prompt explaining the item's history.

Interacting with newly found uncle starts a dialog.

The enchanted medallion was supposed to act like a guide for the player to know which way to go by emitting some light. The closer to uncle, the brighter the light. I have a script for it and it did work in my test scene but for some reason in the actual game it didn't work and we ran out of time so I didn't get the chance to figure it out. I did spent an awful lot of time with it to make it work so it's a bit annoying for it to not work in the game.