Click And Shield

Situation

Click And Shield was built for the 4C National Competition at Universitas Brawijaya. The team had two weeks to ship an engaging game on a topic that mattered. We picked cybersecurity, inspired by the pace of Dumb Ways to Die, and committed to a mini-game compilation with cutscenes between rounds. The core risk was managing many different mini-game logics inside one main system without crashes or messy code.

• National competition with a hard 14-day deadline
• Cybersecurity-themed mini-game compilation
• Multiple mini-game logics had to coexist cleanly in one runtime

Task

I held two roles, Team Lead and Lead Programmer. The technical responsibility was to design the architectural foundation that allowed mini-games to integrate quickly, ensure smooth transitions between levels and cutscenes, and coordinate the engineering tasks across the team so a 14-day target was actually reachable.

• Architectural foundation for fast mini-game integration
• Smooth transitions between mini-games and cutscenes
• Team coordination across the two-week deadline

Action

I designed the game architecture around the State Pattern, which let each mini-game and cutscene live as an independent module and minimised cross-bug risk. I built an automatic transition system that handled asset loading and game-state setup, so transitions only happened after the previous state had been validated. The Finite State Machine approach also gave each mini-game a clear contract to plug into.

• State Pattern as the backbone for every mini-game and cutscene
• Automatic transition system with validated state hand-off
• FSM contract per mini-game so the team could parallelise
• Daily coordination kept the 2-week schedule realistic

Result

We took first place in the Game Development category at the 4C National Competition 2024. The team delivered a stable game with strong technical performance under an extremely tight schedule. The judges' feedback specifically called out the educational quality and fun factor.

• 1st place, 4C National Competition 2024 (Game Development)
• Stable build despite the 14-day window
• State-pattern architecture became my reference for future jams

Award

1st Place

Event

4C National 2024

Duration

2 weeks