Development

Though my team was once again picked at random I had the fortune of getting a Team with many people I had worked with before on both Psybot and Threadborne. With a motivated and cooperative team we went through a few game ideas before settling on the simple concept of a shooting gallery game. A simple gameplay loop with many opportunities for new mechanics to spice it up.

We had 10 Weeks to complete the game which was split into 5 Milestones each with 2 Week Sprints.

Design Goals

• Make a short but satisfying, and replayable gameplay Loop
• Give a Motivation for getting a higher score
• Create gameplay variety
• Balance Difficulty to mitigate frustration and broaden playerbase

Game/Level Design Document

Learnings

A new way of making Levels

While I had worked on a 2.5D game before and made both 2D and 3D Levels, figuring out how to create Levels for a shooting Gallery in Unity was something new entirely.

Most important was how the Targets were going to move across the screen in sequences. The Programmers first Idea of using Animations proved to tedious, so I went on the search for a better way. This led me to a Unity Asset for Bezier Curves which would allow me to create a reusable path for the Targets to follow.

Once the tools I needed were there it became a process of creating and organizing the paths and Target Sequences so that I could plan out and create Levels more efficiently.

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Full Level Design Journey

The Design Pillars that guided our
decision making on Mechanics

All the different Targets in the game.

My Tech Art Work.

Additional Work
Mockups and Sketches

All the external Tools I used