Cat Herding Game
UI and AI
For this project I worked as part of a group to participate in a Game Jam with the theme of "Holiday in December". After Deciding on "International Cat Herding Day" we got to work on making a top down game where you play as a mouse herding cats back into their pens.
UI Work
As one of two programmers on this project I was responsible for a variety of tasks including hooking up the UI functions to our wonderful artwork. The Paw Indicator shown here was my personal design and is used to track the number of cats remaining. Many of the other UI and art designs were also directed by me and carried out by our talented art team
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AI WorkI developed a simple AI to have the Cats roam around periodically within a predefined space bounded by objects that could be dynamically moved. Included in this was collision with world object detection and the ability for them to un-stuck themselves when trapped by props. The cats also flee from the player in a direction determined by the approach angle of the player.
The Cat Heading game can be played here |