This was my first project as a professional game developer. The project was nothing too far out of my comfort zone but I certainly picked up a lot in this one project alone. Like with all projects at Fumb there was no “hard” deadline for the work but as I was on probation one of the goals was to finish the Gunsmith code. Given that I finished it in 8 weeks meant that I was in the middle of my second or third project by the time I was off probation, which I passed more or less flawlessly.
The artwork was made or adjusted by a co-worker for the UI and guns. Programming-wise, this has been a nice challenge to make, getting the merge board to work was one of the most challenging sections as a lot of the game relies on it. Other challenges included optimization of the game and idle calculations which sometimes made me want to bang my head on the table but after whiteboarding the problems out I was able to solve them successfully.
The game went through several UI overhauls which were a little annoying from the dev side, as updating the art in a game over and over is pretty time-consuming. Though overall I’m pretty happy with how this turned out and it is still a solid product for my first piece of work in the industry.
