Level-building tools, an interactive station map, enemy behavior, and FMOD audio systems for a VR adventure built around exploration.
Yupitergrad 2: The Lost Station expands the series into a VR Metroidvania: a connected space station with grappling traversal, robot encounters, environmental puzzles, and equipment that opens new routes.
As a Senior Unity Developer at Gamedust, I worked on the game from November 2021 to July 2023. My main focus was production tooling and map systems: helping build the station, generate its map, and make exploration readable in VR.
My contributions also included flying-enemy behavior, equipment animation integration, gameplay pause handling, and audio programming. In the separate FMOD project, I authored and organized audio events, configured mixing, and supported dialogue and music integration.
I developed Unity Editor tools for connecting modular level sections and preserving prop placement as layouts changed. Scene handles, visual previews, prefab support, and undo handling made these tools part of the level-production workflow. I also built map preview and batch-generation tools to inspect and rebuild map assets as the station evolved.
For the player-facing map, I worked on section discovery, neighboring areas, passage states, points of interest, and player position. I developed map movement, rotation, and recentering controls, and integrated map mode with gameplay pause and camera behavior. Mesh preparation and combining supported the map’s visual representation.
My audio work connected FMOD to game and level lifecycles, including bank loading, event playback, music selection, and dialogue callbacks. I adapted the integration around the project’s needs and worked on native callback data handling and cleanup. I also connected flying-enemy behavior-tree tasks with 3D navigation, target tracking, and firing conditions.
Tools and disciplines behind the project.
Created and developed tools for connecting and aligning reusable level sections. Implemented scene handles, connection visualization, and prop attachment behavior so layout changes preserved the relationship between sections and their contents.
Built and refined map-generation workflows using level content, simplified geometry, passage markers, and points of interest. Added batch rebaking with level selection and worked on mesh combining and outline integration for map assets.
Implemented and refined map-section detection, discovery, neighboring-section reveal, and passage visibility. Connected level relationships and runtime exploration state with the map’s visual feedback and points of interest.
Developed map positioning, rotation, player indication, and recentering. Iterated on controller-based interaction and prototyped tracked-hand manipulation, then refined the map’s behavior across level transitions and camera changes.
Created a map preview tool inside the Unity Editor, with visual level selection, scene navigation, and controls for inspecting different map parts. Refined its materials, visual cues, and behavior during editor and play-mode transitions.
Developed object-mirroring tools with previews and transform controls, added scale-rounding utilities, and improved undo behavior when reconnecting level sections and their props. Worked on tools across multiple open scenes.
Developed early flying-enemy behavior using NodeCanvas tasks and Mercuna 3D navigation. Worked on patrol routes, target tracking, aiming checks, firing behavior, physics-based rotation, and visual debugging of combat behavior.
Refined grappling-tool animation and integrated weapon switching and firing with animation parameters and gameplay states. Connected equipment and environment interactions to sound feedback.
Adapted and extended FMOD integration into a reusable audio service. Worked on Addressables-backed bank loading, event emitters, audio parameters, pause behavior, and cleanup as gameplay and scenes changed.
Implemented music playback and selection driven by level entry, zones, combat, and game-state conditions. Developed FMOD dialogue playback and refined native callback handling, playback notifications, and resource cleanup.
Authored and refined sound events for equipment, machinery, water, and combat cues. Organized audio banks and mixer routing, adjusted reverb and event priorities, and configured music fades and a localized dialogue audio table.
Coordinated map pause with physics, equipment, audio, and pooled gameplay objects. Refined camera settings and map visibility, combined map geometry, and maintained occlusion data and collision setup as levels changed.