Project overview

The game is a Team Project done during the DBGA Online Blended Course developed by the Necomancers team, a group of students composed of 2 game designers (including me) and 4 game programmers to create an entire 3D game. 
In this project, I also took the role of Project Manager doing all the organizational work for the members of the team.
This game has been made in 4 months of hard work and by going through all the steps of the game's development. 

My contributions to the game

I actively contribute to the creation of the game in the following way:

• Project Managing:

  • Created and managed the ​appropriate Discord server for the team.

  • Created and managed the appropriate Trello board and organized the tasks for the members of the team.

  • Writing weekly reports with the indication of the tasks done by the members of the team in that particular week.

• Game Ideation: 

  • Contribution to the Ideation and Convergence session for the concept of the game​.

  • Ideation of the main mechanics of the game.

  • Ideation of the light's abilities and their visualization on screen 

  • Ideation of the game narrative, dialogue, and tutorialization elements.

  • Ideation of the Level Design of the various areas of the game 

  • Ideation of the User Interface's design.

• Game Development:​

  • Playtesting and fine-tuning of:

    • Player character and enemies movements 

    • Combat system:

      • For the character player:

        • Attack, roll, and parry speed​.

        • Attack output damage.

        • Health points for the player

      • For the melee enemy​

        • Attack speed​

        • Attack damage 

        • Vfx addition to making the parry timing more understandable for the player

        • Health points

        • Range of awareness

      • For the ranged enemy:​

        • Attack speed​

        • Range of the arrow

        • Range of awareness

  • Design, playtesting, and fine-tuning of lights mechanics such as:​​​

    • Range of the light of the lantern​

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    • Explosion ability to use in combarepelepell the enemies (range and cooldown)

    • Exploration ability to illuminate a better portiothe n of area (range and cooldown)

  • The level design of the different areas of the map:​

    • Design of the areas using the free asset available ​

    • Enemies and objects placements in the different areas of the game

    • Placement of the lights to guide the player

    • Placement of the triggers for activating dialogues, checkpoints, and moving between the different areas 

  • Design and creation of the narrative and dialogues included in the game​

  • Design, playtest,fine-tuneuning boss-fight at the end of the game

  • Design of the User Interface of the menus 

  • Design of inventory UI and ability HUD in game

• Game Documentation:

  • Contribution to the creation of the pitch document of the game​​​

  • Creation of the Game Design Document of A Lantern In The Dark

  • Creation of the dialogues' document and context elements' document   

  • Creation of the SWOT and Risk Analysis document with the information collected during the meeting with the programmers

  • Creation of the Final Report document

• Public relations:​

  • Presented the game during the "Presentation Session" of the different stages of the development (Pitch, Prototype, Vertical Slice, and Final game presentation)​

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