LensFlip

My submission for the Unlikely Collaborators Game Jam 2025. Theme was "Perception Box," and the jam ran for about 12 days.

I originally joined this jam as a programmer with 3 other people. We had a little bit of a rough start, having a difficult time deciding on an idea. After 3-4 days of prototyping various ideas, we each decided to attempt the jam solo! I had never done a solo jam before, so I was a little nervous about it, but it ended up being a pretty enjoyable experience.

The programming side of things went relatively simply, and I had the main idea functional in a few hours. Most of the interactable actors are just children of the same parent, and have slight variations in their functionality. I utilized sphere tracing and blueprint interfaces for the interaction, and I used event dispatchers for the updating of the environment. All in all, it went surprisingly simply.

I used several techniques to make my art production time as quick as possible, such as using a single material instance with a tiny gradient atlas texture for almost all of my meshes. I also used very simple, low poly shapes for my environment meshes, but beveled all the edges and used smooth shading to give them a clean appearance. These two techniques allowed me to rapidly create a cohesive art style.