dream painters
dream painters
ROGUELITE - ONLINE CO-OP- THIRD PERSON - RATED E
ROGUELITE - ONLINE CO-OP- THIRD PERSON - RATED E
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✧WINNER OF UBISOFT'S 14TH EDITION GAMELAB✧
✧WINNER OF UBISOFT'S 14TH EDITION GAMELAB✧
winner
BEST PROTOTYPE
BEST ART DIRECTION AND PRODUCTION
NOMINATIONS
Best Game Design
Best Technical Challenge and Innovation
Best Quality of the “3Cs” (camera, characters, controls)
Best Creativity and Integration of the Theme
Best User Experience
The biggest challenge
|Making a game for every skill level
|Making a game for every skill level
... where everyone eventually feels like a pro.
THE QUESTION
How can we create an inclusive rogue-lite with a uniform learning curve for all players?
THE ANSWER:
Challenging mechanic
Easy Game
Concept art by Jessica Zhu
Concept art by Jessica Zhu
Challenging mechanic
Challenging mechanic
The mechanic...
is an unusual concept + challenge
but a simple and fun one + inclusive
and it balances the skill levels of a team. + uniforming
And it's also very easy to build upon.
EASY GAME
EASY GAME
The enemies, the levels, and the abilities are made to be:
easy to understand
easy to learn
easy to master
But the player must feel that they're just that good.
New ways to use the mechanic
Scale up the challenge
Let players tailor the run
A subtly forgiving game
Enemy and game over screen design
Enemy and game over screen design
The SECOND biggest challenge
|"dream" as a theme FOR A COOP GAME...
|"dream" as a theme FOR A COOP GAME...
... meant making the impossible reasonable.
THE QUESTION
How can we make dreams, which are not meant to be shared experiences, exactly that?
THE ANSWER:
Bend the concept
Unify the players
BENDING THE CONCEPT
BENDING THE CONCEPT
The narrator dreams of being supported in their journey.
A second player is now justified
Narrator = passive consumption
unify the players
unify the players
Choose a mechanic that pushes players to act as one.
Players synchronize
The experience is shared
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