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Tropical Trouble

Role: Designer

Engine: Unreal Engine 4

Genre: Arcade Racing

Platform: PC

Duration:  November 2020 - June 2021

Team Size: 15

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My contributions

I worked on Tropical Trouble as a Gameplay Designer and as a Level Designer. 

Most of my work was fulfilled on establishing the 3Cs ( Camera, Character & Control ) of the vehicle and exploring gameplay systems. Additionally, I designed our main level, Ruin Rush. For this, I used rational-level design practices such as paintovers, node maps, sketches and blockouts. 

Vehicle and gamemode
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First vehicle prototype to test and establish vehicle 3Cs.

Created controllable vehicle using Unreal Chaos Physics vehicle with drift-boost mechanic.

  • Established vehicle & camera with prototyping and iterations

  • Experimented with Unreal Engine (chaos) physics vehicle to find optimal vehicle feel. 

  • Created a racing game mode that tracks laps and time.

  • Created a save and load system for the data saved in the game mode.

  • Made a functionality where players can earn medals depending on the race times.

  • Added dynamic camera effects to the vehicle while boosting for added juice.

Created camera boost effect.

Eventual vehicle result.

Ruin Rush - Race Track level design
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Sketches from reference pictures

Created nodemap

Created detailed level layout

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Level Fly-Over

  • Designed level using rational-level design approach

  • Created Level Design Concept Document Link

  • Established and iterated on the design for the final release

  • Collaborated with artists to improve readability and set dressing

  • Built track according to layout

  • Created blockout of important parts of the level

Playthrough through finished level
My acquired experiences during development of Tropical Trouble

  • Worked on a 7 month long project in the 4 phases of Game Dev. Concepting, Pre-Production, Production and Release.

  • Worked on a project with an interdisciplinary team consisting of 15 members.

  • Learned how to work properly with source control in a larger team environment.

  • Learned basic team managing skills and communication with developers.

  • Became adept at using Unreal Engine 4

  • Explored and acquired the skills of System/Tech Design & Level Design

  • Communicating with programmers to implement vehicle character according to intended game design.

  • Communicating with visual artists to implement set dressing and building a level according to intended level design.

  • Researched and designed vision on how to implement vehicle 3Cs in a racing game.

  • Prototyped and tested various character 3Cs to find the optimal implementation according to intended design.

  • Experimented and prototyped various gameplay elements regarding arcade racing games.

  • Researched camera Juice and implemented racing camera using post-processing effects.

  • Applied modular set pieces created by environment artists to set dress parts of the level.

  • Play tested build with planned tests with targeted test goals.

  • Fix bugs and issues in the project for build submission.

  • Keep build up to date and submit it with appropriate patch notes.

  • Released gameplay of a racing game with 1 level and 4 vehicles with varied statistics.

  • Created gameplay trailer by creating a scenic level to showcase gameplay experience.

Play the game here

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