I scripted a slow, story-driven traversal sequence that conveys a shift in the player character's physical state entirely through the player's movement.

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Terrible Lizards is built on fast, fluid parkour gameplay. But the story beats here required the opposite: I scripted out the player's crouch, jump, and sprint, removing the moveset they'd relied on all game, so they'd feel the character's state directly instead of being told about it. My first pass drove the effect from a hand-authored camera using float curves, but it read as unrealistic and risked motion sickness over a long, slow walk. So, I pivoted and pulled in a dedicated character animation from the animation team and drove the camera movement from it instead. Inheriting real weight and timing made the movement feel grounded and fixed the comfort issue, and my lead found it much closer to his vision than my original.