Inspiration
Game projects are a democratic brainstorming, present and vote process.
In this project, an early favourite was a racer game, and after some chucking around ideas, the idea of a cat car was landed on and widely agreed upon.
TrackMania was the idea reference point, but being a cat the controls had to be different, after all a race car can’t jump (usually).
So I did what I usually do and research, including going through my games played memory and still owned or within my subscription services.
I landed on Spyro, having played the remake not so long ago and recalled that the sprinting on the ground was something that could be nice match.
So I replayed, got gameplay recording and pitched that. The understanding and being on the same page with my fellow designers and programmers afterwards was pretty clear and problem free.
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Q & A
What were the biggest challenges you experienced?
- Bottleneck issues caused by technical issues
- Having technical programming limitations and focusing on what is really smooth, and building the levels accordingly.
What technical tools did you use?
- Miro
- Discord
- Perforce
- Jira
- Unreal Engine 4
What is the most significant thing you learned during development?
- Do not use technology that is in early access or beta state. Especially when you don’t have direct developer support.
- Game juice can make even somewhat repetitive gameplay loops feel satisfying.
- A good Miro board/design document is golden
If you had more time, what would you improve or add?
- More enemy variety, like a grenade-throwing one that you can’t punch or throw things at, so you need to jump attack.
- A final boss fight requires a few player skills, such as anticipation, movement, reaction, and timing attacks.
- Work on items to heal/boost, and or a damage-combo meter that unlocks an ultimate.
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