Robbie Peden - Game Designer - Coca-Cola: The Red Planet

Coca-Cola: The Red Planet was a project I was part of in which we were given a brief to teach risk management to employees through gameplay. The project was a resource management game where we were tasked to send Coca-Cola to Mars. Players would be required to maintain their resources, hire a crew, fill the ship and reach the goal of sending their first shipment of Coca-Cola to Mars.

This page includes the final trailer for the game as well as some information about the project, my role in the project, pre-production, development and our final product.

Pre-Production

At the start of the project I developed a simple paper prototype to show a game concept to the team. This was made with paper, coins from a monopoly variant and a dice rolling mobile app. After explaining the rules, the rest of the group played through the game and later this prototype would become the sectors mechanic within the final game.

Development

Through development we would meet most week days to undertake tasks and review our progress for the game. We also had meeting with the clients to discuss and showcase our progress and new ideas. During the development stage, lockdown began, so meeting in person became video calls and the original plan to record all the audio in the recording studio had to be scrapped

Final Product

By the end of the project we had a working prototype that could be played start to finish. We had a trailer completed for the game and some promotional images created by our artists.

Genre: Turn-based Resource Management

Engine/Software: Unity, Photoshop and WWise

Team Size: 7

Duration: January 2020 - May 2020

Platform: PC

Role(s) and Responsibilities

Audio Designer - The Foley, SFX and background music were mixed and edited by me. (Due to Covid-19 restrictions I had to use royalty-free music for the project instead of recording myself)

Game Designer - In charge of designing the resource management system, turn-based mechanic and spin wheel mechanic.

Narrative Designer - Backstory for the mission and writing/recording the script for the trailer.

This page includes the final trailer for the game as well as some information about the project, my role in the project, pre-production, development and our final product.

Pre-Production

Development

Final Product

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