Lay-Off — Project Specification

Project Summary

Lay-Off is a high-stakes, 3rd-person, 4-player multiplayer trap-placement deathmatch developed in Unity. Spies compete in a deadly broadcast event after extreme budget cuts force the agency to "downsize" by lethal means.

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Roles

• Gameplay Programmer
• Technical Artist
• Writer

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Technologies

• Unity
• C#
• Shader Graph
• HLSL
• Photon (PUN2)

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Programming Contributions

Gameplay Systems

• Player Spawner
• Inventory Manager
• Final Door Logic
• Debug Tools
• Trap Spawner System (core feature)

Trap Spawner System

Includes:

• Photon RPC spawning
• Ownership logic
• Networked cooldown system
• Four trap types (Poison Dart, Bouncing Betty, Detonator, Ceiling Trap)
• Synchronization under latency and client desync testing

Implementation Steps

1. Photon setup
2. Ownership rules
3. RPC syncing
4. State management
5. Testing under various network conditions

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Technical Art

Interactable Shine Shader

• Rotated UVs
• Triangle wave time cycle
• Surface shine animation

Gas Trap Shader

• Checkerboard + Perlin noise layering
• Remap + Smoothstep
• Time-driven UV motion

Hologram Highlighter Shader

• Scanlines
• Noise grain
• TV-static-style interference

Water Cooler Shader

• Dual normal maps
• Depth-based color shifts
• Scene-depth gradients

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Writing Contributions

• World design
• Game concept
• Main antagonist ("The Boss")
• Full voice line script