Q*BERT JONES

OVERALL GAME DESIGN

PLAYER (Q*BERT)

• Programmed player movement by changing the rigidbody velocity to Vector3 XYZ value

  • Allows precise control over where the player lands after jumping​​

• Created all player sprites to fit design and theme of remake

  • This includes all character animation frames​​

  • Different speech bubble animations appear depending on how the player dies​

GREEN & RED BALL AI

• Programmed the red ball (enemy) and the green ball (score boost pickup) share the same AI for their movement on the pyramid

  • Either ball instance will spawn on the top level of the pyramid, and then chose from a random range of 2 possible directions (Vector3) to jump right or left​

  • If player touches a red ball, they lose a life.

  • If player touches green ball, they will gain a score boost and freeze all other characters in the scene

COILY AI

• Designed AI to be same as balls until the bottom row of the pyramid

  • Change sprite to snake when colliding anywhere on bottom row​

  • Swap the jumping AI to make a decision (from a range of left and right) to move to a tile that the Player tags as "Target" when they jump on it.

  • Programmed Coily to chase the tile the player is standing on

LEVEL DESIGN & AESTHETIC

• Constructed all tiles, elevators, and ground are from 3D assets, while all characters, balls, menu & game UI, and tile textures are made from 2D pixel art created in Piskel

• Design choice was chosen as a nod to the Indiana Jones franchise, and was inspired by the namesake characters fear of snakes