Sundiver

I think my largest contribution on this project was the pathing tool I wrote for the level designers.

The game was based around the player moving their ship on a grid to grab pickups and avoid obstacles. Since the level designers would need to align every gameplay element with the grid they needed a way to see it. The tool I wrote to aid in this allowed them to intuitively and interactively design and route the player tracks through the levels.

• • The general player path can be can be manipulated with gizmo control points and the tracks will be displayed as blue lines.

  • The different events (enemy spawns, etc...) placed along the track are shown as green lines linking the triggering track position to the object the event is sent to.

  • A orange frame is also rendered at the player (and other moving objects on the track) allowing easy visualization of the possible positions where it could be at any one time.

  • The system is flexible and supports any number of tracks and track spacings.