Living among the clouds with your legendary birdlike companion, your idyllic life is shattered when corrupted fiends steal your Skytail’s offspring. Now you must harness the telekinetic powers of the ancients and take to the skies in a daring rescue.
Wield a wide range of telekinetic abilities using elegant gesture controls. Crush foes, tear them apart, or charge them up and hurl them around for devastating impact.
Built in Unity, I started out as lead programmer on this project before leaving the company for a career break, later returning to help get it over the finish line. Initially I worked closely with design to prototype and develop the physics-based telepathy mechanic — the core tool players use to manipulate the environment — as well as trialling various combat and puzzle mechanics.
Upon returning I focused on optimising scripts, rendering, and physics. The game’s minimal loading screens created shader warming issues, compounded by our use of Vulkan. To solve this we built a shader pre-warmer that ran against dynamic objects during boot, and worked to cut shader variants down to the absolute minimum.
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