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Cucura-purumã
Capstone

Capstone project built at UFF, a digital game that explores cultural narrative and design mechanics as an academic research subject, built from scratch with Unity and C#.

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// About the project

What was built

Cucura-purumã is the capstone project of my Computer Science degree at UFF. The project combines game development with academic research: the game is both the final product and the object of study.

Built with Unity and C#, the project required mastering not just technical development, but also mechanics design, narrative creation, and game systems architecture. The name comes from a cultural reference that runs through the game's narrative.

// Challenges

What made the project difficult

// Engine

Unity from scratch

Building a complete game in Unity with no prior experience with the engine required accelerated learning of its systems: SceneManager, Coroutines, Physics and more.

// Design

Mechanics that communicate

Creating mechanics that don't just work, but that communicate the game's cultural theme was the biggest creative challenge of the project.

// Scope

Capstone on schedule

Balancing academic depth with practical development, and delivering on the university's deadlines, required a lot of scope discipline.

// C#

Game architecture

Organizing the code so the project could grow during development without becoming unmanageable was a continuous learning process.

// Tools

Technical stack

Unity

MonoBehaviour

SceneManager

Unity Coroutines

// Outcome

What I learned

Unity in practice: learning a whole engine while shipping a working product is completely different from following tutorials.

Game design as research: every mechanic can be analyzed academically as a communication system, design decisions have justifications beyond entertainment.

Scope management on a solo project: knowing what to cut is as important as knowing what to build.

Component-oriented C#: Unity's pattern is radically different from traditional OOP, and very powerful when used well.

Cucura-purumãCapstone

Cucura-purumã
Capstone