Roles: Creative Director, Systems Designer, Level Designer

Led a team of 26 people to construct a movement shooter focused on unique traversal through the world

Designed and iterated on the Kinetic Pistol and other tools to increase emergent and multiplicative gameplay

Constructed portions of level two that incorporate trains and combat in an enclosed area

Exhibited at Bradley's FUSE 2024: https://bradleyinteractive.com/2024/exhibits/soulsync-city/

Was initially a normal pistol. Functioned, but was boring and encouraged players to sit in one spot and shoot enemies

Reworked to take player's velocity into account

• Adds ricochet based on velocity

• Increases damage based on velocity

Issues encountered:

• Impossible to hit maximum velocity for more than a half second, if at all

• Still used by players to shoot enemies from far away

How I worked to fix these issues:

• Storage of velocity for a couple seconds before decaying, allowing the player to hit maximum velocity and then deal boosted damage in that state for longer

• Testing values in Unity to see how much damage the pistol should do depending on what the current velocity is

Was the first tool concepted and implemented into SoulSync City

When used, makes the player dash in whatever direction they are currently facing, including up into the air

Issues encountered:

• Easily the best tool developed in terms of versatility because of:

  • How fast it recharges

  • How far it makes the player go

  • Does damage

  • Stuns enemies

• All of the above factors cause issues when trying to balance other tools

• Issues communicating when it was on/off cooldown

How I worked to fix these issues:

• Helped create the basis for diegetic UI, where the neon on the tool fades when the tool is used and then reappears when the cooldown is over

• Proposed the implementation of a vertical limit to velocity when using the dash tool

• Tested and tweaked the dash tool's damage and stun time