Robots
Overview
Robots is a handheld title for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS based the Blue Sky Studios feature film. Players control Rodney Copperbottom, a robot who’s just arrived in Robot City with nothing but his trusty wrench and dreams to become an inventor for Big Weld Industries. Rodney soon finds out that Big Weld is nowhere to be found and Ratchet has taken control of the company. With his ingenuity and the help of his friends, the Rusties, Rodney rescues Big Weld and puts an end to Ratchet’s tyrannical rule.
The gameplay of Robots combines elements from classic beat-em-ups like TMT4: Turtles in Time and platforming games. The Nintendo DS version features high resolution graphics, 3D menus, a 3D version of the transit ball racing game, and a unique transit ball challenge mode.
My Role
For Robots, I designed, built, and scripted levels. Each level was designed on paper. A heightmap was then created using Pro Motion. This heightmap was extruded automatically with Griptonite Games’ proprietary tool. Level artists drew the background art on top of the extruded heightmap. Finally, levels were populated with game objects and scripted using an event driven programming language.
