The Man with the Red Umbrella was my Academic thesis project. It was a prototype of an action game based on Giacomo Costantino Beltrami, an 18th-century Italian explorer who discovered the headwaters of the Mississippi River.

I wrote a thesis on Level Design and developed a prototype in Unreal Engine of the game with two other colleagues.

I was in charge of the Level Design and world realisation and used real data to recreate a small part of the map using the World Machine software. 

The player could take on a quest and meet an Indian tribe, discover their culture and take notes in their journal (similar to Red Dead Redemption).

It was the first time I had to create a whole prototype for a game and think about the research, design, documentation and Level Design. I gathered info at our local library, interviewed historians and researched original artefacts and maps.

I learned that Game Development is no joke but it was hella fun!