GAME DESIGN PORTFOLIO
LIAM PICKERING'S
GAME DESIGN PORTFOLIO
A showcase of video games designed and produced by.
MY PORTFOLIO
01
Trials of Totec
Puzzle Game
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Trials of Totec is a light based puzzle game set of the fantasy world of T'allalo, where the Player must restores colour after an experiment by the Creator of T'allalo, Totec went horribly wrong, and absorbed all the colour out of the world. Now its up to YOU, with the help of GLOW, Totecs friend and the only remaining Light on T'alallo to journey to Totec's study at the centre of the planet, solving his puzzles along the way, to restore the colour and save the world!
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Trials of Totec, or ToT for short, is the finished product after a semester of work by the Diagonal Beekeepers Team of the 2021 Major Production unit at AIE. It was the first time myself and the team had produced a game from Concept to Alpha to Gold. The brief given was to create a light based puzzle game, we then came up with Trials of Totec. A game where the player will use a beam of light to solve a series of puzzles placing and rotating mirrors to guide the light from start to finish. The game uses a shader that makes the world grey scale apart from a specific area within the Light that is coloured, and by completing the puzzles the Player restores the colour to the grey scaled world.
ToT is a light based puzzle game set of the fantasy world of T'allalo, where the Player must restores colour after an experiment by the Creator of T'allalo, Totec went horribly wrong, and absorbed all the colour out of the world. Now its up to YOU, with the help of GLOW, Totecs friend and the only remaining Light on T'alallo to journey to Totec's study at the centre of the planet, solving his puzzles along the way, to restore the colour and save the world!
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My Roles & Duties:
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1. Lead Designer
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2. Creative Director
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3. Writer & Narrative Designer
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4. Programming
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- Led a cross-functional team in an Agile environment from pre-production to release in a condensed game development cycle within five months (AIE Course)
- Tracked team members' tasks through product management software to identify pain points and focus on development areas that needed improvement
- Maintained consistent communication with cross-functional departments by relaying important information to the team about the status of the project
- Served as the defacto Scrum Master throughout the entirety of the project, documenting daily standups, identifying, and resolving blockers, and disseminated important notes to the team
- Created and managed the project's testing plan as well as executing QA testing with internal and external partners to enhance the overall quality of the project
- Concepted and helped code interactions and mechanics that would further immersion and player engagement.
02
3rd Person Platformer
You are Bob the Blob, the blob-iest blob to have ever blobbed in the great Kingdom of Blobem.
But Wait!
Whats That?!
The King and Queen of Blobem have been captured by the evil Squares of the Polygon Nation!!!
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It is up to Bob the Blob to save the King and Queen of Blobem and to kick some pointy butts along the way.
Roles:
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1. Lead Designer
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2. Creative Director
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3. Writer & Narrative Designer
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4. Programming
This was the first game I was ever involved in making. It was produced during 2nd Semester of my first year at AIE (2020). Bob The Blob is a 3D Third Person Platformer, where the Player must use a double jump and dash ability to solve puzzles, finish obstacle courses and defeat enemies. The game is targeted at a younger audience, who maybe experiencing their first video game or 3D Platformer.
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The World we created was full of soft rounded shapes, with a bright neon 80's inspired colour palette, which was juxtaposed against the enemies, who were made of sharp edged polygons.
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I intend on developing this game further once I have completed my study. This would include:
- Updating the Narrative
- More Levels
- Add new mechanics and Update existing ones
- New Enemies
- Bosses
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Roles:
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1. Lead Designer
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2. Creative Director
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3. Writer & Narrative Designer
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4. Programming
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