Side-Tracked is a top-down rail shooter using a custom voxel engine that also ran on the Nintendo Switch. I was on the team that built the engine and also helped develop the game.

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Contributions

Most of my time went into making basic features of the game engine. I had to create the entity system, which includes the ability to inspect and serialize entities. After making the entity system, I created the scene tree and entity editor, along with the ability to save and load maps.

When the development of the game started, I switched to more of a support and tools programmer. I made a tool for editing the lighting settings of the scene. I added a gizmo and multi-selection to improve the scene creation workflow.

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Challenges

The Nintendo Switch build was hard to maintain along with the game. So much so that eventually we decided to drop it to focus more on the game.