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My goal for the AI was to make it easy for anyone on the team to write the AI for a character. Currently, the AI works by giving the character a file that contains a list of actions. When the player enters a room containing an NPC, the character will begin reading from the file and performing the listed actions. The current actions include saying something, walking to a location, turning in place, waiting a specific amount of time, starting and ending the theme song associated with the character, changing and saving information about the character (Current room, spawn location for that room, current action script, etc.), and removing the character from the scene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aae8205372b9655294796c2/1521756841239-K2UGOLKDONTCF20RJSSF/GolemSceenShot.png Little Golem - Camera The camera in Little Golem was one of the first things I developed for the game. The camera smoothly follows the player once they have strayed a specified distance from the center of view. The speed that the camera moves scales according to how far from the center the player is, allowing it to quickly catch up with a fast moving player, and smoothly slow down as it approaches the player. When entering tilt mode, the camera smoothly zooms out, allowing the player to see a larger portion of the level they are tilting. When tilting in a direction, the camera rotates in that direction to make it look like the world is being tilted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aae8205372b9655294796c2/1521756878032-LAVR9FNNSHS4YF6N4E0K/GolemSceenShot.png Little Golem - Tilt Physics No, the whole game world is not tilting, its just looks like it is. If you already read how the camera works, you know that the camera rotates in the direction of the tilt, in order to make it look like the world is tilting. When the player tilts in a direction, a force in that direction is added to all objects containing a script that inherits from the TiltableObject class. My primary goal for the tilt physics in this game was to have the least amount of constraints on the physics objects while retaining usability in a grid-like puzzle system. For the crates in the game, this meant constraining the rotation on the upward axis. This prevents the the crates from ever becoming unaligned so that right is always right, and forward is always forward. If a crate were to tip over on its side, the constrained "upward axis" would now be pointing horizontal, which means that the crate is now constrained on a horizontal axis, relative to the world axis. My solution was to add a rotational force that scales with difference in angle between the crate's rotation and the ground beneath it. 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