Merge and Run
Vira Games · Runner · 2023
Unity's controller is a capsule. The hero is a cube. So I wrote my own.
Context
You run carrying a number, pick up other numbers along the way and they add together — a hundred plus sixty-two makes a hundred and sixty-two — and the goal is to reach the finish with the largest number you can.
The engine controller is a capsule and the hero is a cube, so I rewrote it
Movement
The hero of this game is a cube carrying a number, and it had to move precisely and react to what it hits.
Unity's character controller is a capsule, which is the wrong shape for a cube, and full physics broke both the feel and the collisions.
So I started from a community kinematic controller and rewrote it around a box collider, with its own jump and impact animations on top. It was also the first project where I drove those animations with tweens rather than an animator.
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Project facts
- Year
- 2023
- Role
- Unity Developer
- Team
- Three-person pod — game designer, artist, me
- Scope
- Solo developer, concept to release
- Studio
- Vira Games
- Released as
- BazhannyaTeam
- Engine
- Unity, C#
- Platform
- Android · Google Play and Amazon Appstore
- Target device
- Amazon Fire 7 · 1 GB RAM
- Numbers
- No cap — the 2048 in the title is marketing, not a rule
- Controller
- Started from a community kinematic controller, rewritten around a box collider
- Tooling
- A simple road-building tool, reused across most of my runners
- Where to see it
- Amazon Appstore ↗ · listed as Merge and Run