What Remains of Me

• I work as a design lead for the mechanical systems design, steering the direction of the puzzle difficulty and level progression. 
• Analyzed existing student-made puzzles to determine any necessary changes and create heuristic to implement with future puzzle creation
• Designed and implemented puzzles and mechanics

The game is a large puzzle platformer game with metroidvania components worked on by over 400 students over the course of five years. The project is used to teach a course on working in an existing codebase and uses Agile and Scrum project management styles along with JIRA and Github.

• Platform: UNITY
• Link to game: https://whatremainsofme.itch.io/what-remains-of-me

• I do volunteer work with playtesting and quality assurance for the game, actively working in a community led by Porcelain Fortress and providing feedback on game systems and bugs that are found
• As a personal project, I have tabulated the furniture score data and shared it with the player community to improve overall player-base knowledge and enjoyment of the game
• Link to furniture spreadsheet: Hyperlink

Walk of Life is a satirical life simulation resource management party game for 1-6 people where you balance four resource pools as you build score and try to beat all your friends. The game is currently in early-access on Steam and is developed by indie team Porcelain Fortress based in Iceland.

• Platform: STEAM
• Link to game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1910150/Walk_of_Life/

• I worked alongside four other designers to with the role of project manager and systems design lead
• I was in charge of the game playtesting, wherein I created and executed a playtesting protocol integrated with iterative prototype design.
• Created concept art for the music monsters and the incorporation of the instruments into their body parts

Dueling Duet is a musical turn-based 1v1 strategy game designed for a casual audience. The core gameplay is designed around a rock-paper-scissors style of option selection to encourage emergent strategy based on counter-playing your opponent and social dynamics

• Platform: UNITY
• Link to game: https://santi5578.itch.io/dueling-duet

• Management of overall project design, task division, and design direction
• Balancing of game movement mechanics
• Creation of card art

This was a five week long project from a rapid-prototyping course where I served as project manager, design lead, and secondary artist in a team of five. For our system, we created a high-challenge turn-based bullet hell prototype where speed of inputs and perfect play are key to scoring high.

• Platform: UNITY
• Link to Game: https://santi5578.itch.io/office-nightmare

• Worked as the design lead, project manager, and artist for the project
• Created sprites for the characters and UI elements

Four week long class project intended to instill a specific emotion in a player, specifically the desire to have experienced a moment with someone else. The project was purposefully limited in scope to be short and to have the level design and mechanics of the game directly contribute to the desired emotional aesthetic.

• Platform: UNITY
• Link to Game:https://santi5578.itch.io/office-nightmare