Game development / Spring 2025
A familiar story.
A more combative Alice.
A Unity platformer through Wonderland, from forest jumps to a showdown with the Queen of Hearts.
Play on itch.io Windows download · Released prototype
01 / The experience
Jump, dodge the guards, and throw Alice’s headband. Potion and cake power-ups bring the book’s changing scale into the platformer.
We built on mechanics as the game progressed: small mushrooms introduce a bounce, then larger mushrooms send Alice higher. I implemented the gameplay systems and helped shape the level ideas; Amy built the environments and Delaney created character and item art.
Frames from the public gameplay video; gameplay and HUD preserved.
02 / Behind the build
My work connected player interaction, character behavior, environment mechanics, and game state. The most useful lessons came from the things that broke.
01 / Placing the guards
Each enemy spawn originally needed its own Transform reference. I replaced that setup with editable X/Y positions within a spawner and added gizmos to show the locations in the scene.
The benefit was easier placement and debugging as we built out levels.
Individual Transform references
One spawner
Editable X/Y positions
02 / The Queen’s attack
The boss’s cards collided with one another, disrupting their spread. I put them on a dedicated layer and disabled collisions between cards so they could follow their intended angles.
I also added a warning line to show where an attack would come from. The encounter became a problem the player could anticipate.
A line signals the incoming attack.
Cards travel without colliding with one another.
Built, played, adjusted
Delaney tested finished levels and logged bugs while Amy and I built the next. We then retested fixes and adjusted movement speed, jump force, and Alice’s size. Camera constraints also led us to make the mushroom level more horizontal.
03 / What I learned
I put too much trigger and tag logic into PlayerController. Next time, I’d move more behavior into the objects Alice interacts with, and start testing movement against the environments earlier.
More frequent Git pushes helped us exchange feedback as we went. But scope still mattered: we cut the Cheshire Cat invisibility idea and dialogue to concentrate on the core game.
The result is a playable prototype—and a much clearer sense of how I want to build the next one.
A three-person project
The game also uses environment assets from Hernandack, Untied Games, Ansimuz, Kassjak, and Spritecatalog, as credited in the team report.