Zackary Henderson
Technical Designer
Trench runner is a fast paced threat management game made over the course of eight weeks. The goal is to survive a supplies trip across a dangerous frontier world on a courier ship.
My roles in this project were Producer, Lead Programmer and Designer.
As producer I coordinated the team and made sure that we were all working towards the same goal. I managed our liquid planner and set all scheduling for every task.
As a designer I designed, implemented and tested almost every gameplay mechanic in the game. I also implemented all animations in Unity's Mecanim, lighting and certain shuriken particle systems.
I provided constant feedback for the art team that helped shape the look of the game and provided concept art, textures, models and animations for important assets.
As a programmer I wrote the movement scripts for the player vehicle, enemy AI and enemy spawns. I also wrote the player vehicle functions that include resource management, controlling animation states and scene navigation.
Managing a team was a big learning experience for me. I had to learn that my job as a producer to is enable my team to do their work to their fullest. Previously all my team experience was as a programmer primarily and I didn't appreciate the work a producer has to do.