Technical Details

• Dual-world cooperative endless runner designed for two players, each operating in a separate realm: Jungle Realm and Tech Realm

• Five structured temporal challenge modes dynamically introduced during gameplay:

  • Standard Endless Run: baseline obstacle navigation and scoring

  • Mirrored Actions: inverted player inputs (jump ↔ slide, left ↔ right)

  • Split Controls: control responsibilities divided between players

  • Fog Relay: one player’s world is obscured, requiring obstacle synchronization with the visible world

  • Glitch Swap: random realm swapping between players during active runs

• Procedurally generated track system supporting seamless transitions between challenge modes

• Coin collection system with individual coin meters per player

• Realm-specific meters:

  • Jungle Realm: Water Meter

  • Tech Realm: Poison Meter

• Meter composition system generates one of four randomized power-ups:

  • Magnet

  • Super Jump

  • Coin Multiplier (×2)

  • Shield

• Character progression system where filling meters grants Character Ability Points

• Ability system integrated with challenge logic and cooperative mechanics

• Designed and implemented in Unity, focusing on scalable gameplay systems and cooperative interaction logic

My Development Journey

SplitVerse is an ongoing project developed with a small multidisciplinary team consisting of a level designer, a UI/UX artist, and a narrative designer. My responsibilities include designing and implementing the progression system, defining the temporal challenge structure, developing challenge logic, and handling the core gameplay systems. Through this project, I gained hands-on experience with mobile game development workflows, performance optimization techniques, and scalable system design for multiplayer gameplay.

Challenges:

• Design Challenges

  • Designing a multiplayer endless runner format that supports cooperative and competitive gameplay

  • Differentiating core gameplay from traditional endless runner mechanics

  • Implementing a progression system suitable for 2v2 competitive races

  • Structuring temporal challenges to encourage coordination, communication, and teamwork between players

• Technical Challenges

  • Optimizing environments, shaders, and assets for mobile performance constraints

  • Implementing fog rendering for the Fog Relay challenge affecting only a single player camera

  • Integrating procedural track generation with challenge-specific logic, ensuring obstacle synchronization during modes such as Fog Relay, Split Controls, and Glitch Swap

• Communication Challenges

  • Communicating environmental and gameplay requirements to the level designer to ensure level layouts supported procedural generation and challenge-specific mechanics

  • Collaborating with the narrative designer to translate core gameplay systems and temporal challenges into a coherent story framework aligned with the game’s mechanics

  • Coordinating with the UI/UX designer to create an interface that visually distinguishes the Jungle and Tech realms while reinforcing the concept of a merged timeline from the narrative