Socratic Smackdown
Socratic Smackdown
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Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4582250/Socratic_Smackdown/
Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4582250/Socratic_Smackdown/
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Socratic Smackdown is a 2.5D platform fighter where animalized versions of famous philosophers use their fists instead of their words to debate.
Socratic Smackdown is a 2.5D platform fighter where animalized versions of famous philosophers use their fists instead of their words to debate.
Socratic Smackdown served as my team's capstone project during my senior year of college. The vision behind the project was a humorous, beginner-friendly addition to the platform fighter genre that pondered questions such as, "What if Socrates was a shark?" and, "How badly does a debate have to go for it to be driven to violence?" and, "How many animal puns can we jam into one project?"
The original team was comprised of nine people, but expanded to fifteen after the game passed our school's "greenlight" process. Students whose games were cut from this would get reabsorbed into the teams working on the games that passed. This process allowed myself and my team members to onboard new people to help our game reach its full potential.
The original team was comprised of nine people, but expanded to fifteen after the game passed our school's "greenlight" process. Students whose games were cut from this would get reabsorbed into the teams working on the games that passed. This process allowed myself and my team members to onboard new people to help our game reach its full potential.
As the lead narrative designer on the team, it was my job to make sure that everything for the game fit thematically, and made for a cohesive player experience. With the help of my teammate Grace Gardella, I wrote and oversaw writing of dialogue, flavor text, descriptions, and anywhere else that text was needed.
As the lead narrative designer on the team, it was my job to make sure that everything for the game fit thematically, and made for a cohesive player experience. With the help of my teammate Grace Gardella, I wrote and oversaw writing of dialogue, flavor text, descriptions, and anywhere else that text was needed.
(Render by Brendan O'Leary)
Above is the spreadsheet used to keep track of voice lines, all written by me. Unfortunately, most ended up not being used, primarily due to time constraints and the limits of our sounds system.
Above is a Google Docs document containing lore and other needed text for our three characters. Much like the voice lines, these did not make it into the final product due to time constraints and other things taking priority, but they were originally intended to be unlocked and viewed in a menu of sorts. They instead served as a back end guideline for my teammates. The tutorials were written solo, but the characters' personalities, backgrounds, motivations, ect. all had some input from Grace in the end.
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