Midwest Goodbye
Description:
By using a deck builder as a metaphor for growth and change, Midwest Goodbye invites you to relive various key moments throughout your life with your family. While you might’ve wanted to get out of a conversation with your grandma quickly at first, taking your first steps into the world on your own might leave you wishing you’d spent a little more time talking with her!
My Role: Lead Designer
Check out this trailer!
- Purpose: Summer Passion Project
- Project Length: About three months
- Team size: 18
- Entirely asynchronous summer development process!
- Started at the start of summer, ended at the end of summer
- Developed and iterated on the conversation mechanics multiple times
- Led design meetings
- Developed Game Design Document
- Created game flow charts
- Implemented dialogue, models, and textures
- Incredible experience with lots of lessons learned… ask me about it!
- Email: caleb.j.purnell@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/calebpurnell
This three-month passion project went on to be featured at MDEV 2025 and was invited by the Wisconsin Games Alliance to be showcased at GDC: FESTIVAL OF GAMING (March 2026)!
