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Description
Dreamland Confectionery is a 3D puzzle exploration adventure where you work together with animal and human friends to explore and help out those in need, expel negative thoughts, and bring back color and life into the world.
The more inhabitants you awaken and bond with, the more your abilities and possibilities grow. Dive into the nostalgic, imaginative world of Oceanos. Experience a heartwarming story about mental health with a colorful cast of long-lost imaginary friends.
Details
Role: Programmer
Contributions
I joined the Confectionary team for the entirety of the 2021 summer. During this time, I onboarded while fixing various bugs throughout the codebase, as well as implementing small additions to the already existing features. The three largest projects I worked on during my time at Confectionary were: The implementation of an extensible structure for dialogue characters, allowing designers to automatically attribute fonts, colors, icons and more to different story character. The creation of a script and framework for writer's pages of script, dialogue and settings to be automatically imported into Unity and update existing objects. The creation of a water freezing mechanic, allowing different types of water structures to be frozen and traversed.
The Process
I joined the team during a time of large staff turnover (being the beginning of the summer). The first segment of my time with the team was spent exploring and expanding upon the existing code base. After a heap of bug fixes and time spent adapting to the project, I was let loose to implement "To Do" projects. I was not able to continue working at Confectionary at the end of the summer due to my obligations to my COOP, however, I have been invited back and hope to possibly work with the team again in the future, time permitting.