ATHEMOS

Collaborative Project

Producer

ATHEMOS is a project that was worked on in collaboration by both Ohio University's McClure Games Research and Immersive Design (GRID) Lab and East Carolina University. The project was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education, through Grant R324A180219. ATHEMOS is a traditional 3-D game with an educational focus on middle-school aged students who may suffer with ADHD. The overall focus of the gameplay is the user must defend earth from an alien attack with 3-D spaceship combat to defeat the alien drones. The players are tasked with defeating the drones via sorties, collecting intel from the defeated drones, mining for resources, and utilizing the resources/intel to solve puzzles. Overall, the gameplay was focused on helping and reinforcing the students academic capabilities (organization, notetaking, study strategy, and test taking) all wrapped up in fun space ship combat game. You can visit the website for the game here.

ATHEMOS Gameplay Trailer

On the project I was the production coordinator/producer. I started initially on the project as a developer working on menus but, quickly found that production was much more suited to my skillset. I also assisted in creating some of the wandering NPCs (we utilized a software that randomized the creation of the wandering NPCs), some level design on the main hub of the game ('Silent Canopy') by filling out the space/environment with various assets both created by the team or purchased for the team. As a producer I ran the SCRUM meetings, helped my director/supervisor with meetings with the client, helped forge compromises between the dev, design, and client teams. We utilized Hack 'N' Plan as our primary organization software and with that based two-week sprints around the kanban boards of assets/tasks.

ATHEMOS was a 2021 GEE! Awards Finalist

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