Fruit Cut

Concept

This unfinished game was centered around cutting fruit to match a weight - created for Game Maker's Toolkit Jam 2024

Through this game jam, I learned of a cool feature that Unity has where the engine can calculate the atomic mass of an asset. Of course, if you had a fruit asset, the its mass measured by Unity won't match real life.

Slice and Weigh

I was a programmer for Fruit Cut. I polished the key feature, which was the slicing and 'weighing' of the cut pieces of food.
- BEFORE: The in-game scale's collision boxes were too large and would not re-measure new slices, thus the mass measurements were not accurate.
- AFTER: As a result, I created a script defining behaviors for 3 triggers - entering, staying, and exiting the collision. This created a dynamic scale
However, I was not able to create boundaries to contain the fruit slices and keep them from floating off the game screen. As one notices in the demo video, once the player slices the apple, both pieces float and bounce around.
In the future, I would look into these improvements:
- Adding gravity so that slices does not bounce after being cut or moved around
- Refining the interactions between the food slices and the scale i.e. making sure the slice stays on top of the scale and not phase through it
- Customize the slice i.e. make the apple slice look more than just red
- Visual cues for meeting the weight goal