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Akira's Sin

Skills Developed

  • Level Design

  • Combat Design

  • Creating Documentation

  • Project Management

Main Roles

  • Lead Designer

  • Scrum Master

Overview

Akira's Sin is a game created over six weeks while collaborating in a team of six, split evenly between designeres, artists and programmers. My team decided to create a game inspired by Hotline Miami and the classic Grand Theft Auto games, which featured fast-paced combat and a drivable vehicle.

Weekly Scrum Meetings

Every week, we would meet up and discuss our progress for the week. My job as scrum leader was to record each team member's progress and assign them a goal to complete before the next meeting. Alongside this, I also assigned each person a stretch goal to aim for if they finished their primary goal early.

Combat Design

A large focus of the project was the combat encounters that the player would need to complete. Our initial plan for the game allowed both the player and enemies to use the same weapon profiles, giving the player the opportunity to learn how weapons function before obtaining them. We also assigned a different weapon to each enemy type to help the player prepare for combat encounters.

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Shotgun

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Sub-machine Gun

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Pistol

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Heavy Pistol

Objective Design

During objectives, enemies would spawn in at set thresholds of progress. For example, a capture objective would spawn enemies after the player has held a zone for enough time. Each enemy that could be spawned was given a weight, allowing us to tune how difficult an objective was supposed to be.

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The player would need to drive their car through the city and complete objectives to access the region's boss. In the current version, there are two main objective types: Elimination and Capture.

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A bird's eye view of an objective in Unity

Level Design

In this project, I was responsible for the design and creation of the main level that the player would explore. Since we wanted the game to encourage the use of a controllable vehicle, the level had to take place in a dense environment. By using Cities: Skylines 2, I was able to concept a potential layout for the level, as seen on the right.

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After this was created, I worked with the artists to develop this plan into a functioning level in Unity. Below are screenshots from stages in the level's development.

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Initial plan for the main level

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Early grey-box version of the level

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Final version of the level

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