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Byte Hack

Byte Hack is a fast-paced puzzle platformer about hacking your way through an infected computer tower.

Engine

Unity

Genre

Action-Platformer

Release

May 16th 2024

Contributions

Made several marketing shorts showcasing the gameplay.
Edited all of my videos with Davinci Resolve.
Provided voice-over for all the videos I've edited.
Recorded gameplay footage for any full-length gameplay trailers of the game.

Reported 4 crucial bugs in the game through GitHub.

Tools

Visual Studio
Google Docs
Krita
Davinci Resolve
Audacity
Blue Yeti Microphone

Shorts

Screenshots

Reported Bugs

Hack Bullets Phasing through walls
- Description
  - Sometimes the bullets phase through the walls/tiles.
- Environment
  - PC
- Steps to reproduce
  - Aim near a wall in any level.
  - Left-click to fire.
- Expected Result
  - The player shoots a projectile.
  - The projectile goes in the direction the player's cursor is pointing.
  - The porjectile collides with a wall and explodes on impact
- Actual Results:
  - The player shoots a projectile.
  - The projectile goes in the direction the player's cursor is pointing.
  - The projectile phases through the wall.
- Severity:
  - Severe
- Evidence:

Player firing hitboxes are Jank in Level 2 Act 1
- Description
  - The player can't fire hack bullets in certain points of gravity.
- Environment
  - PC
- Steps to reproduce
  - Go to the third checkpoint onward.
  - Hack the gravity terminal until the player is falling to the left.
  - Left click anywhere on the screen.
- Expected Result
  - The player shoots a projectile.
  - The projectile goes in the direction the player's cursor is pointing.
  - The porjectile collides with a wall and explodes on impact
- Actual Results:
  - The player shoots a projectile.
  - The projectile only goes left or right.
  - The projectile explodes the moment it leaves the player.
- Severity:
  - Severe
- Evidence:

Tutorial Level Doesn't Show results
- Description
  - If player presses f key at the end of the tutorial level, the enter the elevator, but the game doesn't progress.
- Environment
  - PC
- Steps to reproduce
  - Press the f key near the elevator button located at the end of the tutorial level.
- Expected Result
  - The player completes the level.
  - GPU speaks his line (with a textbox at the bottom).
  - Commander Prompt speaks his line (with a textbox at the bottom).
  - Results UI appears for the player to see their score and have the option to continue or exit.
- Actual Results:
  - The player completes the level.
  - GPU speaks his line (with a textbox at the bottom).
  - Commander Prompt speaks his line (with a textbox at the bottom).
- Severity:
  - Severe
- Evidence:

Lessons Learned

Set up a suitable environment for voice-over work
- Voice work needs good quality. So, I made a temporary home studio in my basement to create an environment where my Blue Yeti microphone could record my voice with little to no reverb.
Make sure the volume of said voice work is balanced.
- In many of my voice work takes my producer gave me feedback that my sound quality had peaked many times. I noticed over time that I stood too close to the microphone during those sessions.
- Therefore, it was essential to stand 15 inches from the microphone (based on the booth I was recording) while also using Audacity to keep the volume of the recordings balanced.
Make sure YouTube shorts last about 35-46 seconds
- When uploading YouTube shorts, it is essential to know how long each short should last before the viewer swipes past it.
- Our marketing team discovered that YouTube shorts should usually last 15-60 seconds, so we adapted accordingly and made our videos about 35-46 seconds.

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