About

Babymon: Daycare Dropoff is a fast-paced babysitting game where you play as a witch caring for monster babies while their parents are at work. Each baby has unique needs, like favorite foods or toys, which are tracked in a magical monster manual. Keep them happy until pickup time without mixing things up!

Responsibilities

I worked as a Gameplay Programmer, mainly handling camera movement, player controls, and interactions. As the project grew, I also implemented event hooks for sound and animation.

Camera Movement

• Top-down camera with a slight angle, smoothly following the player via Vector3.Lerp.
• Clamped camera in X and Z using Math.Clamp.
• Added sweep/zoom for cooking and (later deprecated) mini-games.

Player Controller

• Switched from grid-based to physics-based movement using rigidbodies.
• Inputs handled in Update(), physics in FixedUpdate().
• Developed a jump mechanic, iteratively syncing sounds, animations, and physics.
• Added multiple colliders to improve movement, collisions, and jump feel.

Player Interactions

• Built distinct actions for picking up objects vs. babies.
• Created an interactor Grabbers (child object of player) to trigger interaction logic.
• Handled edge cases where multiple objects were interactable.