What I accomplished as a Designer
• Helped design shipbuilding, along with the various rooms and resources that a player can purchase to upgrade their ship
• Concepted the radio and its various stations
• Designed character interactions and conversations to imbue life and personality in the player's crewmates
• Crew payment affecting crew morale as a risk/reward decision
• Concepting crew morale and its effect on gameplay and endings
• Progression and difficulty design
• Multiple endings based on money accrued and crew morale
• Constant and meticulous iterations on resource and room balancing using Google Sheets
• Communicated with the programming lead on what tools were needed to speed up implementation
Overall, I helped design every aspect of the game alongside a team of five designers. During this time, I was praised by both artists and programmers for the in-depth and concise documentation that I wrote in Google Docs. I was also encouraged by our lead producer to present a master game document I wrote detailing how a game would play from start to finish, which gave our team a clear and united vision of our project.
I also worked extensively in Google Sheets to organize all of our data, which I'd then balance with a teammate, and finally enter these changes in engine for further playtesting. This process would repeat itself for several months until the game was finished in May of 2021.
