• Purpose: Summer Passion Project
• Project Length: About three months
• Team size: 18

Midwest Goodbye was inspired by a group of friends who wanted to make a “practice project” before going into our senior capstone. So, we dedicated three months to asynchronously developing a game with the sole intent of developing our personal skills. However, we ended up developing a game that was invited to be showcased at multiple game development conventions, one of those being GDC: Festival of Gaming!

Systems/Mechanical Design:

• Developed and iterated on multiple prototypes and flowcharts of engaging card game systems and general game flows
• Maintained an in-depth Game Design Document throughout the course of the development
• Utilized scriptable objects, prefabs, and programming systems to personally implement hundreds of lines of dialogue
  • Integrated the dialogue with the game system, different art models, UI assets, and voicelines
• Balanced relationship levels and energy costs for cards

Level Design:

• Responsible for leading the “World” functional team, which ensured that all interactions in the house felt nice and worked properly
• Implemented a large portion of art models and textures into the house
• Played a large role in the overall environmental storytelling

Narrative Design:

• Played a role in the creation of each of the characters
• Provided feedback on the writers’ dialogue
• Personally wrote the entire tutorial sequence