Stickatar definition: A heroic figure of both stick and avatar.

This project is currently not "playable" in any sense of the word. It is a technical demo, until further notice (probably forever).

20201004- One gameboard wasn't enough, four gameboards to rule them all...

20200903- I threw a fairly pointless user control hint up, mostly to familiarize with Unity UI Panels and TextMeshPro.

This started as a by-request interview test. Afterward I decided to make a best effort to turn it into something more portfolio-suitable. It now serves as an opportunity for me to improve my first-hand experience with Unity.

(you are welcome to infer the outcome of the interview)

The original defined criteria was to play with the basic concepts of path finding through a simple 2D landscape, without using Unity's built in NavMesh. The rationale for why we aren't using NavMesh is for the sake of "academia." Also, see long term goals for potentially other reasons.

To accomplish this within a budgeted timeframe, I decided to implement a rather un-Unity-like approach, which plotted two GameObjects and pushed one toward the other along a list of waypoints obtained from the A* algo. Since then, I have been applying more appropriate mouse and keyboard-driven controls to improve the UX factor of this tech demo.

• Improve tooling and visualization, so that broken paths can be understood and remedied
• Implement pathfinding at scales formerly unknown to Unity (tens of thousands of tiles)
• multi-level pathfinding along isometric slopes

• Figure out some kind of goal / purpose
• Add some achievements feedback, let the player feel awesome for a moment
• try to avoid "scores" (boring!)
• Real stickman models.
• amazing advanced animations, sound fx, and a live orchestra soundtrack composed by Skaven (Peter Hajba)

(last one might be a bit of a stretch goal)