
TRUCO OU VATIO

Truco Ou Vatio (in English: Trick or Watt) is a videogame that was developed for a Game Jam in 2022 by Michiños Fofiños, a group of six students from the University of A Coruña. The theme for the Jam was "Light". With that in mind, we created a game where a house is haunted but from the perspective of the ghost. For this cute cat-like ghost, their house is being haunted by two humans and their task is to turn on as many appliances as possible in just one minute in order to increase the light bill and kick the humans out.


In this project I was chief of the programming team and also the lead programmer. Except for the character and the camera, I programmed everything else: the interfaces, the interactions, the inventory, the items, etc. For the objects that could be turned on I created a struct in which I stored all of the info for each item, like the model for when it was on and when it was off, the points it gives when turning it on, the sound it makes, the trigger volume location and size, etc. With this I was able to create just one blueprint for all of the items, in which I only had to change the ID so that everything would come into place.
For the lights I had to create a more complicated system. Using dispatcher events I made it so that when the player clicks a light switch, this event triggers a specific blueprint (each light has a different blueprint due to the different light intensities and colours) and the light bulb turns on.