Was ist Was - Abenteuer Erde is an action adventure for the Nintendo DS where the player has to travel around the world and solve puzzles in order to find his missing grandfather. As part of the development process I wrote my Diploma thesis Implementation of a State Driven AI Subsystem including Pathfinding on an ARM Derivative.

My responsibility was the game AI as well as the implementation of the Minigames. The challenge was to keep the memory allocations low which was a problem in the implementation of navigation meshes having an high number of nodes which was necessary in big maps to have a smooth pathfinding. Therefore I had to use some techniques to reduce the nodes described in my Diploma Thesis.