The Quest is a 3D space drum shooter where you fly with your drum set through space, destroy obstacles and collect as many points as possible. The game was developed for Sony’s Playstation Portable with the PhyreEngine as part of the Master Course of Professional Practice in Dundee, Scotland.

The player can hit a single drum to fire a projectile with a specific color which can destroy obstacles of that color. Each drum is mapped to a different key and emits a projectile with a different color. By hitting the drums in a specific sequence, combos can be activated which fire random projectiles at a very fast interval.

Since I was the only programmer in the team my responsibility was the complete code base. The challenge was to work with a complete new engine in a short period of time. In addition the documentation of the engine was very limited and in most cases written in Chinese which did not help at all.