GAME DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

This document and diagram detail a self-contained rescue quest. Brief overviews and backgrounds are given for each character, and three branching player profiles are defined - Applied, Discreet and Alternative - each charting valid approaches to completion, from direct combat to magical dialogue and unconventional ingress, all described in the quest diagram.

Available on itch.io, 'Lapse' is a rogue lite text-based visual novel, striving to encapsulate the creativity and ethos of seminal countercultural auteur indie titles. As outlined in the proofing document, a single run will have the player traverse several modular 'days', their micro decisions over the course of each one affecting their branching macro progression and their achieved ending.

This quest is set within ‘Fallout: Path Of Elijah’, a fictional sequel to New Vegas incorporating lore from Interplay's cancelled ‘Van Buren’ title. The player must decipher a nuclear silo's schematics and navigate the implications thereof. Modular quest objectives are denoted alongside player-character journal entries following an overview of the concept, key locations and quest items.

Created under Game Jam time constraints, this single-stage prototype demonstrates a fully-implemented core gameplay loop, applying C#-scripted logic to pre-existing assets. The player controls a tank, with rotating turret and projectile weapon, against an AI enemy, as both compete to either hold a king-of-the-hill objective long enough to win the round, or to eliminate the other before they can do so first.

This package includes both the pitch and preliminary design document for a proposed first-person stealth action game set in a Soviet gulag during an alternate timeline Cold War. Acting as lead, I organised an ideation meeting, sectioned off and delegated work and compiled and formatted the returned material, appropriately navigating contextual constraints and problematic teammates.

Through utilisation of the Mechanic-Dynamic-Aesthetic analytical framework, this document provides a comprehensive design deconstruction of Supergiant's "Transistor". Following a playthrough window, I delegated topics to each group member on which to contribute material. I then edited, formatted and sourced visuals for the body of content, refining it into the given deliverable.