Thought I'd share a short tale on an accidental development choice re: camera angles that ended up being better than we intended.

We've just released a short Santa stealth micro-game - a wee bit of a homage to those old-school MGS stealth games, but with a festive feel.

We had always designed it with a directly overhead camera angle in mind, but accidentally switched to an angled view in Unity one day and thought it actually looked a bit cooler?!

(A) Angled View

(B) Overhead View

So, I did what all confused devs do and asked Twitter which one they thought was better - with the angled camera being the resounding winner.

HOWEVER, those that got the reference to the old school MGS feel opted for B big time, so we ended up doing something that we should have done in the first place... and just implementing both :)

Because we're using Cinemachine, we were able to have two virtual cameras that the player can switch between.

So a few lessons from this:

• Don't be afraid to experiment
• Always get feedback
• ... and when in doubt, try both!

- Vicky

Ho-Ho-Home Invasion

Ho-Ho-Home Invasion is a Santa stealth micro-game made in three weeks - free on both itch.io and Steam.

Whitepot Studios

Whitepot Studios is an indie game development studio launched in 2016. Whitepot offers work-for-hire development services, as well as creating its own IP across PC, mobile, and console.

Whitepot Studios won the 2019 UK Games Fund for their upcoming multiplayer murder mystery Murder At Malone Manor, as well as being Big Indie Pitch (Cologne) finalists and winning Northern Ireland Game Of The Year for their mobile title, Tubocity.