Supervisor

(Winter 2020)

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Roles: AI Programmer

Language: C#

Engine: Unity

Links: itch.io

    Supervisor is a single-player game, where the player must ensure their employees stay on task, while balancing their moods. This game was a 3 person group project, developed over the course of four weeks.

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    For this project, I developed a finite state machine that determined an employee AI's productivity and communicated with a separate finite state machine to determine whether an employee would switch productivity states. I also developed the player's ability to praise or reprimand employees in response to the employees' productivity.

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    The finite state machine is comprised of two states, productive and distracted. Employee characters had a chance every second to switch from the productive state to the distracted state.  The mood state machine, developed by another programmer, determines the mood of the employee based on frequency of praise and reprimands. An employee's mood is improved when praised and declines when reprimanded.  The productivity state machine checks the employee's mood, which determines the likelihood of becoming distracted. The productivity state machine will then produce a random number and change the employee to a distracted state if the number is greater than the established threshold for each mood.  

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