Unannounced Project

Genre: TBD | Platforms: TBD
Team Size: TBD | Project Duration: TBD

Unannounced Project is an in-development project at Playside.
It is a nextgen Story & Action game.

Design Responsibilities - Overview

On Unannounced Project - I am leading enemy design and encounter design, overseeing a small combat team in conceptualizing, building, and refining mechanics. I manage design documentation, align with the lead designer, facilitate feature kick-offs, scope with production and the combat team.
I coordinate with programmers, audio, tech-art, VFX, UI, and QA.

Core Game Design Responsibilities

Enemies & Enemy Mechanical Design
- Enemy archetypes design.
- Attack design.
- Attack selection & cooldown design.
- Attack magnetization & rotation design.
- Special attack & status effects design.
- Attacks & indicator design.
- Attack token system design.
- Combat distance & VO barks design.
- Behaviour tree design.
- Enemy interactions with Hero abilities.
- Accompanying design documentation.
- In-engine setup, maintenance & iteration.

Combat Arena Design
- Combat arena - level design.
- In-engine greyboxing & iteration.
Encounter Design
- Encounter pacing design.
- Unique moments sequencing & storyboarding.
- Accompanying design documentation.
- In-engine setup, maintenance & iteration.
Combat Team Planning
- Defining sprint goals.
- Sprint planning.
- Team task management & alignment.
- Feature Kick-offs.

Technologies Used

Unreal Engine 5 (Game Engine)
Blueprints (Visual Scripting)

Perforce (Source Control)
Jira (Project Management)

Confluence (Docs)
Slack (Comms)