Another prototype that we made for the same investor collective in the US. While I wouldn't delve into gameplay details, generally speaking, it was a turn-based tactics game, developed in Unity, in 3D, and targeting desktop and browser (via WebGL).

As with the strategy prototype project undergo massive gameplay changes during the development, radically shifting its visual style and making gameplay much more complex.

My responsibilities were:

• Gameplay, networking, and visuals programming
• Revamping project visuals with new models and animations
• Development planning and estimation

Challenges on the project:

• Legacy code had to be systematically phased out, I retained what I could, but there were major rewrites since gameplay become tenfold more complex
• Lots of mechanics revolved around vision, which had to be symmetric from any player's perspective, and also changed dynamically based on the situation. I had to review several cell vision algorithms until I've found one that suited our needs
• Rendering and code optimizations - pathfinding, for example, made a big amount of unnecessary calculations, which I reduced and optimized. On the rendering, side overlays were made inefficient, so I rewrote the code to be rendered with custom shader and texture maps, which provided the necessary efficiency
• WebGL brought its own share of problems, mainly with optimization and custom rendering. I've introduced some post FX in the project, but it took some trial and error to get that working under WebGL
• Generally speaking, it was a challenging game from the gameplay perspective - there were abilities to move through walls, become invisible, blow up holes in walls, build new walls, involuntarily move enemy units, set up invisible traps and devices, buffs, debuffs, critical hits and misses