DIORAMA

Seeds

Steerity

2016

Company

Publisher

Plateform(s)

Engine

Tools

Duration

Year(s)

Team

Role(s)

Small Bang

Unity

Google Slide, Google Doc, Photoshop

7 months

2016

10 persons

game designer, level designer

What is DIORAMA?

DIORAMA is an adventure game in which you can alternately play a little girl and a goddess. Make these two characters collaborate to reach the summit of Mount Olympus.

My work on the game

Benchmark and analysis of games of the kind we wanted to develop (cinematic platformer, adventure games, narrative game)
Development of several ideas on documents in order to offer a wide choice of gameplay for the team
Presenting those ideas to the rest of the team

Once the team selected and validated the pitch

Core gameplay design (character switch, water state, puzzles)
3C design (camera behavior, characters abilities, characters controls)
Creation and conception of gameplay mecanics
Collaboration with a writer to create a rich universe while keeping the necessary consistency needed for the gameplay and story to work together.
Paper level design iteration (platform and puzzle phases)

During the prototype development phase

Working closely with programmers in order to develop tools allowing the game design team to adjust the different parameters of playable characters (movement, abilities, etc.)
White blocking level design in Unity from previous paper tests :
iteration to create variation of a same level
global level design pacing management
Collaborating with the artistic team and the director (the camera is on a rail) on the level design (camera placement, light management, pacing)
Specific tutorial design for each game mecanic
QA testing (bug base set up and management)
Writing of a survey for playtests
Playstests organization (google form, provide reports and analyzes to the team following several playtests sessions)

Tutorial conception for each gameplay mechanic
QA testing (and setup of the bug tracking system)
Drafting of a playtest questionnaire
Playtest organisation (reports and analysis following several playtest sessions)

Level design iterations

1rst iteration

2nd iteration

3rd iteration

4th iteration