Familiar: Battle of the Labyrinth | My Site

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Sara Ryder

UX & Level Design

Research

Now that I had a general idea of the project outline, it was time to research!

Familiar: Battle of the Labyrinth

Game Specs

Project Overview

Team: 8 member cross-disiplinary

Engine: Unity

Additional tools: Figma, Photoshop, Wwise

Constraints

Assets: Team was responsible for creation of art, audio, code, particles, etc.

Time: Created over two semesters

Roles

- Design Lead

- UX Designer

- Interim Producer

Implementation

Personal Contributions

In addition to the examples below, some of my contributions to the project were:

Prototyping & Playtesting
Tracking task management and spinning up weekly production meetings
Wireframing and prototyping UI
Implementing art and audio assets

Environment Art

00:07

Environment Art

Collaborated with artists to finalize and implement environment backgrounds. Implemented various background particles like lighting and moving bubbles

Lose Sequence

00:09

Lose Sequence

Collaborated with UI artist to create lose screen assets and implemented final assets. Created/Implemented lose particles.

Win Sequence

00:25

Win Sequence

Collaborated with artists to create portal art. Created/Implemented portal particles. Implemented final party scene art

00:08

UI

Created/Implemented archetype icons (ranged, tank, duelist) to track what enemies are in each combat. Collaborated with UI artist to create health tracker and implemented final assets.

Node Travel

00:15

Node Travel

Collaborated with UI artist to create node icons. Implemented node functionality (active, locked, unlocked, clicked, etc). Created/Implemented all node particles

Splash Screen

00:08

Splash Screen

Collaborated with artists to create splash screen art. Implemented final splash screen assets.

Starting Particles

00:04

Starting Particles

Created/Implemented start trigger particles. Created/Implemented archetype icons over characters.

Win Screen

00:07

Win Screen

Created/Implemented win screen particles. Implemented artist's UI assets into engine.

Post Mortum

Technical Learnings

Gained a deeper understanding of Unity and C# scripting
Practiced particle creation
Learned from fellow designers about robust Unity implementation
Practiced art and audio implementation

Collaboration Learnings

Practiced communicating with other development disciplines
Gained insight into sprint and milestone processes
Practiced pitching design concepts to stakeholders

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