Spike
In Spike, you play as a fragile, cute hedgehog tearing out their spikes to use them as weapons. Spike is a demanding action game in isometric 3D embarking you on a path for revenge.
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Summary
I was a game designer on a 10 people team for this final year project that we worked on for 4 months along with our courses.
We wanted to build a hardcore but fair experience with cute visuals centered around the core gameplay of a hedgehog throwing and reloading their spikes.
I was responsible for:
- Game Concept, Core Mechanics and Creative Direction with the other designer
- Prototyping the character controller and game feel and iterating over it with a playground
- Fleshing out systems designs on documents for the team
- Designing enemies in team, then implementing and iterating over them using finite state machines.
- Helping out producers by making several asset & feature lists for animators, programmers & UX Designer
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Post-mortem
This project came with a lot of challenges, as we didn't have a lot of time to work on it and had to do it along with our research for an internship and our courses.
What I got out of this project was mainly that producing and game design are tightly knit together and that game designers should participate actively in producing discussions.
I am glad we managed to find design solutions to keep the scope reasonable, like creating procedural animation effects.
From my part, I learned to keep in mind the strengths and weaknesses of the team while designing features, and I didn't hesitate to lend a hand in other fields when needed.
If you want to see design documents, please open my portfolio on a device with a larger resolution.
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Detailed Work
Let's create great games together!
I can help you build amazing game design, user experience and prototypes for your game, or review the current state of your game project.
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