Pocket Planet
Splatfest
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iOS & Android
Endless Runner
Designer, Producer
9
4 Months
Fight your way through the food festivals of the world. Colourful mayhem as Joko to throws, dodges, and gains special abilities.
Designed game
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Fusion of the concepts of food-fight festivals and mobile endless runners.
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Movement mechanics, festivals, locations and obstacles.
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Bonus' and incorporation of educational content.
Producer for the team
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Created and managed the development tasks and goals across all game team departments.
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(See Pocket Planet Description for more details).
User Testing
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Prepared vertical slices of the game, orgainised students and teachers, conducted testing and focus groups, reported results, actioned them into tasks based on feedback.
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Refined the shooting mechanic, drop rates, play area size with primary target audience (children 9-11).
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Responsible for balancing across different devices.
Contributions
Major Challenges:
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Dual finger shooting mechanic on hand-held device.
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Rotation of character in space while shooting rapidly on different angles.
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Challenge escalation, and maintaining visual consistency.
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Each device required different balancing (as screen size would change the play area, this in turn required refinement of game speed, NPC spawning, and drop rates).
Major Success:
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Overcoming all listed challenges.
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Completed on time and budget.
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