This is the simplified version of the game I built so my partners and I could explore how our game should function. Because I did not want us to redo work unnecessarily, I was careful to make sure the scripts and prefabs I built could be reused in other situations. I first built a simple level model with Unity ProBuilder and then implemented scripts to control the characters’ movement and trigger animations. The robot’s movement script simply alters its velocity in response to key inputs whereas the squid’s movement script applies forces to its rigid body in order to simulate moving through water. I also implemented a game manager script to keep track of which character is currently being controlled and end the level when both characters reach the goal or one of them dies. Additionally, I wrote simple scripts to move the walls, respond to button presses and kill the squid and robots when they touch the electric block or, in the robot's case, the water.

My teammates and I then used the simple level as a foundation for the final level. Because I had done all the work on the simplified level, I primarily focused on building the final level’s models in Unity ProBuilder and writing some scripts to do simple things like moving platforms, and making both characters move to a certain position and a heart appear upon completion of the level. My teammates did things like adding sound, squid ink, animations on some of the interactive objects and so on.

In response to feedback from play-testers that what the electric blocks would do is unclear, we decided to add some particle effects to make the danger they pose more visually obvious. I created the electricity by making a particle effect using a texture sheet animation that is generated around a mesh.