Here’s the Game Design Document for my current Capstone Project at UTD. I’m very excited to be working on this with such a great team of people. This GDD was cowritten by Amber Litke and myself.
The game is currently in development as a 2D sidescrolling sci-fi horror/puzzle game in the vein of Home, Lone Survivor, and Detention.
Attached below are the GDD, Rules, and a Google Drive link for a board game I developed over the last few months called Azimuth. It’s four players with asymmetrical gameplay and light cyberpunk elements. Players take on the role of a Bartender, Detective, Journalist, and Criminal, and get in each other’s way as they try to reach their own goals. You can download the assets from the Google Drive link, print them out, and try the game for yourself. Not to toot my own horn, but I had fun playing, so I hope you do too.
Game Board designed by Cesar Ramirez.
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1pV9plFA08cMVJ1YWpKMVFxSzQ/view?usp=sharing
This is a brief sound design project I created a while back. A friend of mine narrates the first few pages of Douglas Adam’s A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The background music is “Arthur Wakes Up” from the Hitchhiker’s Guide movie. Editing of the music and sound effects was done in ProTools. Sound effects were taken from Freesound.org.
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In Donegal, players will take on the role of a traveling monk who comes across a village in dire straits. The player will learn of a curse upon the villagers and will take it upon themselves to help. The monk must journey through a forest and castle overtaken with the strange and arcane in order to confront the source of the curse.
Fully developed in Twine from the GDD previously posted. Some future updates, like a surprisingly much requested Hard Mode, will be coming.
Amber Litke, Abigail Halgarth, and Kevin Helmers helped contribute world, story, and characters to this project.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1pV9plFA08cZlNnYmRxaEdnMEU
Attached is a calisthenics and walk cycle video for a Centaur Rig that I completed. The rig features Flexi systems, squash and stretch, three joint chains for FK/IK switches, and facial blendshapes made in Mudbox, though sculpting is not a strong suit of mine.
The model was downloaded from Turbosquid.com.
Below is the GDD for Donegal, a short text adventure game, later developed in Twine, about a wandering monk and a cursed town in medieval France. Amber Litke, Abigail Halgarth, and Kevin Helmers helped with story, world, and characters on this project. I later developed this into a playable game in Twine.
The video shows a simple audio driven particle system, where the color of each particle is changed by the pitch of the music.
The song used is Busy Earnin’ by the Jungle. I own no rights.
Attached is a brief game design document for Disengaged.
Players take on the role of USAF Major Tom Bowman who wakes up alone on a spaceship orbiting Europa with rapidly failing systems. Bowman must work to restore the ship to working order whilst trying to discover what happened to the crew.
This short story, attached below, briefly introduces a world of intrigue, where a man who believes in the Illuminati takes it upon himself to eradicate the organization and save the world, by any means necessary. In this story, he is just beginning to start his bloody quest with an unwitting New Jersey Senator.
I plan to revisit this concept in the future and further develop the story, possibly for development in Twine.
Eric Southerland