Hibernating Hedgehogs

Hibernating Hedgehogs - Rising Star 2021

Produced for the 2021 Grads in Games - Rising Star Competition. 

This game finished 2nd in Rising star and joint 4th across Rising Star & Search for a star(Final year and Masters). ​I was subsiquently nominated as a finalist for my game and coding challenge. The project was to convert a simple 2D minesweeper game into something new, whilst maintaining a significant proportion of the provided code.

On this project I had two key issues. Firstly, after implementing the slow tile reveal, I identified a performance issue. After crashing Unity several times, I used the Unity profiler tool to determine that I had a recursive check for each cells unlock. This was infact checking cells that had already been checked, compounded with the below issue, I was effectivly running out of memory on my PC. After resolving the checking loop this was resolved.

However, the issue remained was that I was simply setting the materials color and this was therefore generating a large number of set pass calls. Once this was changed to using material property blocks. This too was resolved.

​ Key functionality implemented included:

Multiple board sizes, dynamically created at run time.

Dynamic placement of prop geometry around the created board

Dynamic cell reveal

Character and camera controller

Level select UI Highscores

Time tracking, star and level unlocks

Save system

In this project, no 2D or 3D art was produced by me.