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My contributions were:

Level Design

• Made level blockouts

• Built levels using modular assets

• Added gameplay elements such as enemies & traps to levels

I was the lead Level Designer on the project. This meant I was in the early discussions with other team members about how the levels should look and play. Early on this meant a lot of collaboration with our environment artists to make sure we were on the same page when it came to the basic level structure in our game. This led to them being able to start work on a comprehensive collection of modular assets while I continued work on the levels themselves.

I started by sketching a handful of levels in my notebook with paper and pen. When I had a few levels I considered worthy I then started building them in Unreal using placeholder assets as the actual environment assets were still being made. However it wasn't long before I had some early versions of the floor and wall assets available to me. These basic levels, built using work-in-progress assets, were the levels we used for playtesting a lot of the game's basic systems during the first few weeks of development to make sure the fundamental gameplay was there. 

I kept working on creating blockouts for new levels as well as fleshing out our existing ones until we had a number of levels we were happy with. This number was 5 (excluding the Start room and the Boss room), we settled on this since we did not want to create more levels than we would have time to polish. My level design work the last few weeks of the project consisted of discussions with our environment artists to make sure the aesthetics supported the design (and vice versa) as well as adding colliders and enemies to the levels. These then required tweaking and adjusting as I was also playtesting the game a lot during this time. 

Playtesting & Balancing

• Kept track of and reported bugs

• Finetuned the game's difficulty

I was the team's main playtester during the project which especially took up most of my time towards the end of the project while the levels were being finalized by the environment artists. This included me taking notes while playing the game to make sure I kept track of any bugs that had appeared and then reporting said bugs to the relevant people in the team, for example reporting a bug with the reloading mechanic to our systems designer or a bug with the shadows to our lighting artist. I was also personally tweaking the enemy difficulty and placement during this time to ensure the gameplay felt fair but challenging. This mostly meant adjusting the amount of health enemies had, their movement speed as well as the number of enemies in any given room. Since we settled on having an algorithm increase the number of enemies in rooms as the game went on, this algorithm required a lot of fine-tuning. 

Scrum master

• Held scrum meetings every day

For the entirety of the project I was also the scrum master. Every morning I held a meeting with the entire team where we ensured we were all on the same page and if everyone's work load was manageable. These meetings were important in making sure we were on track and no team member was falling behind. 

Sprint, Milestone & Gold presentations

• Held majority of presentations

Finally I was also one of two people who held the sprint and milestone presentations. This meant I was always keeping track of how the group as a whole was doing and checking in with individual team members to make sure I could show off their work accurately during the milestone presentations. I was then one of two people holding the gold presentation on the last day of the project.

Gameplay showcase:

Project members: 

Designers: Oscar Carlesjö, Jens Nielsen, Kim Berglin, Fabian Svensson Röste

Programmers: Joakim Karlsson, John Rodriguez, Linnea Zetterljung, Oskar Nord, Ossian Karlsson, Pi Östberg

Artists: Charlie Grönlund, Elvira Paxborn, Hanna Lindqvist, Isak Siltala, Mateo Gretter Lopez, Paula Pennanen, Sam Johansson