Heart Quest
Heart Quest
BCCH DIGITAL LAB
TIMELINE
TOOLS USED
ROLE
Jan - Apr 2025
Unity / Figma / Blender / Gitlab / Sourcetree
Lead Game Developer


"Enjoy the joy
In a heart factory"
Heart Quest is an educational game meant to help children with heart conditions through educating them on their condition, heart anatomy, and interventions that they are likely to have. In educating them with a fun and engaging game, we aim to alleviate some stress and anxiety to improve surgery recovery outcomes.
Overview
Genre: Adventure
Platform: Android
Player: Single
Description: An educational game for players to learn about the heart conditions
Basic Info
My Work
Development Management
Led MVP development as development lead, worked on gameplay implementation, version control, play tests, technical documents, sprint goals check-ins and bug tracking system
Rapid Prototyping
Developed prototypes for multiple minigame features in Unity 3D, iterated quickly based on clients feedback and playtest results
Customized Dialogue System
Rewrote the key components for dialogue system based on Yarn Spinner, collaborated with backend developers for content editing in web portal
Cross-Functional Team
Collaboration
Worked with game designers, 3D artists and backend developers to build multiple game levels and discussed technical solutions
Feature Showcase

Customized dialogue based on Yarn Spinner: rewrote the key components of yarn spinner (dialogue runner, line provider, support component...), implemented customized features in dialogue system

Using a web portal to edit game content: the web portal stores all player data and users can access and edit specific game content, such as the playable levels and dialogue contents

Character movement control: using NavMesh agent as the main component. Implemented animator, interaction controller and dialogue manager on the character
Production
