findr
elaboration
Dating sim meets hidden objects; with surreal undertones
With Findr I took a lot of initiative and had already decided on a premise before I started finding people to work with.
Luckily the talent found me, and we quickly decided on a story we wanted to pursue, and found the tools required to start working on our project (Unity and Fungus).
We weaved surreal elements into the game and story, but found that this art style isn’t the easiest to execute, so we needed to take time to really learn about it. Despite the circumstantial
process
In our pre-production phase we brainstormed our concept and story, aiming to create something unique in a saturated genre. We also looked at our main references: Monster Prom and Ace Attorney.
With our basic concept we then created player personas and conceptualized how we’d engage each of them with our game. At the start we overscoped believing we’d make several storylines and characters, after working for a while we realized one character would be enough for the time we had, with several hidden branches and goodies for dedicated players.
findr
My Roles
Lead Designer:
– Wrote and maintained Game Design Document
– Determined priorities
– Created (lead our group in making) player personas
– Managed team member’s expectations and understanding
Level Design:
– Structured and populated levels
– Determined relationship between the levels
Vision Keeper:
– Communicated and reevaluated vision of our game
– Assessed which tasks had to be finished
– Evaluated finished assets
Engine Programmer:
– Learned to use our Plugin; Fungus
– Intensively learned Unity
– Implemented levels, backend systems, story, features
– Fixed bugs
elaboration
With Findr I took a lot of initiative and had already decided on a premise before I started finding people to work with. Luckily the talent found me, and we quickly decided on a story we wanted to pursue, and found the tools required to start working on our project (Unity and Fungus). We weaved surreal elements into the game and story, but found that this art style isn’t the easiest to execute, so we needed to take time to really learn about it. Despite the circumstantial difficulties our group managed to deftly finish the project within the ten weeks we had to work on it, and are all quite proud of what it has become.