American Student Assistance — Project Alpha

Dates

Created a prototype after the team iterated an idea for a spaceship manager minigame, in which the player/manager of a spaceship must assign workers to roles that fit their skillsets.
Independently programmed various types of puzzles for an escape room minigame.
Programmed a slide puzzle and created a tool in the Unity editor for designers to easily create their own slide puzzles.
Made a combination lock puzzle where the player receives a combination lock consisting of several sections, each of which displays a number, and must rotate each section to enter the correct combination of numbers to complete the puzzle.
Created a light and mirrors puzzle where a light points at a mirror, and that and any other mirrors must be rotated so the light reflects off each mirror and ultimately hits a goal to solve the puzzle.
Created a tangram puzzle where the player must move and rotate various pieces of the puzzle to fit into an outline showing the desired shape of the completed puzzle.
Programmed a tool in the Unity editor for the tangram puzzle to help designers more easily create their own variations of this puzzle.
Implemented new features and fixed bugs for a detective minigame.

What I Learned

The importance of creating tools that enable other developers to quickly create iterations of something (in this instance, puzzles)
How necessary it is to keep a project organized so everyone knows what is actually in the project
How to write neat, clean code that others can easily read and understand
How to transfer work between multiple teams on the same project
The importance of reviewing colleagues’ work to make sure all code is up to the highest standard and possibly find better ways of solving a problem
Various new programming techniques for games, such as reflections, mesh generation, how to procedurally place and scale objects through code, editor scripts / tools