Grab your sword and make your way swiftly running across floating islands and old temples, slashing terrible creatures with stylish tricks and vaults.
Drift Walker is a First Person Parkour game inspired by Ghost Runner, in which players must cross platform-based levels, slashing enemies throughout their runs in order to safely reach the end of the level.
Role - General Game Designer
Mechanics Design
Game Structure Planning
Level Design
Mechanics Prototyping
UI Design
During the pre-production phase of the game, I used a personal framework to analyze the learning cycles of the game, in order to properly understand which aspect of the game should be boosted and cured, in addition to have a much clearer vision of how the player interact with the game, being able to properly introduce the player to different mechanics.
I cured the entire Level Design Document, taking care of key elements such as Level Pillars, proximity diagrams and affordance studies before jumping into the engine to create blockout levels.
Pacing studies were made to determine the flow of each levels, using graphs to foresee levels of satisfactions of each part of the level using derivatives.
After these preventive studies, I blocked out all levels, defining points of interests to use as a guide during the traverse.
I also created prefabs to speed up the level design process.
I was responsible of prototyping a couple of mechanics, such as Rolling Pillars and Falling platforms, providing all the elements that could help the programming team to create a better and more optimized version.
I also used an external tool to analyze, visualize and tweak the speed and sensation of the player's movement.
I was responsible of the UI design.
I used Figma to design the first iterations of UI, following an asset and hierarchy structure to mantain in engine, speeding up the process of UI programming.
I created a new repository branch in order to manipulate scenes for trailer purposes.
I used external packages (Cinemachine, Unity Recorder) to create cutscenes.
Video trailer edited and rendered using DaVinci Resolve.
