Greybox platform

For his assignment we had to create a platform video game in unreal engine utilizing blueprints and meshes provided to us without creating any static meshes in Maya (no paper Mario copyright infringement here) was required that we had to make a level for someone who was new to video games.

I started out with a completely different idea that I wanted to do but because it had elements of magnetism. and doing such is extremely difficult especially at my beginner level of knowledge in blueprints. so I switched my idea to being that everything is a trap and requires some sort of method and repetition to get through the level since I really enjoy games lie that because it comes off to me as well thought out.

the biggest thing besides coming out with a new level idea in such a short amount of time in the week is using the blueprints but i have a better idea of how vectors and floats work in unreal engine, also not make static meshes defaults roots in the blueprint because it broke a blueprint and i had no idea how to fix it, so i had to get help. I had a lot fun with the ending. if there was anything I would fix, it would be the theme of level being more incorporated into the set design of the level. but overalla good exprience to being me into level design. I like idea of coming up with problems and solutions to visuals.

Platform concept proposal

My idea for the platormer proposal game has to do with magnets, the character is a magnet and/or has a magnetic suit. and because he/she's in the suit they cant jump because theyre too heavy. So they have to use the changing properties of the suit to jump and get around the level.
In the first part of the lv, the playable character has to get the coin by being the opposite charge of the magnet to pulled up. then the character needs to change their polarity to be the same of the second magnet to be pushed up by the magnet. then I took this idea and made it more advanced and the stakes a little higher.  they have to float over the magnets by changing their polarity one after another to float or they will be stuck to the magnet.
and they have to change their polarity to be attached to the magnets on the wall. and then repeat it but with a higher stake.then the player must jump and float over the 2 magnets with a broad timing aspect.Then the explanation of enemies of enemies happen, which you can get through by shocking them at the right moment. theres also the first electromagnet which super charges the player and throws him through the enemies, defeating them.
After this the final room where I tried to twist and raise the stakes even higher. the first big challenge is to get attached to the rotating gear. and then use the super charged magnet to strengthen the charge with a time limit to get to the end of the level.

Super Blue Boy Planet

Super Blue Boy Planet's first level is a tutorial on how the game's mechanics works. The layout for the tutorial is straight forward, so it accomplishes its goal of the player understanding how the game works while giving them a nice summary of the upcoming levels. While it is a generic game that can easily get lost in the masses of other indie pixel games in the market, but it has a good tutorial that accomplishes the goal of a tutorial because I did know how the game worked at the end of it. Though I wish the game had more to offer because the warm background colors with the cool foreground   had a nice composition, and the color scheme choices had potential to be a more interactive game level.

The pace of the tutorial doesn't go on for too long as there is only a few mechanics, Jumping from platform to platform, flying over to farther away platforms, and jumping on enemies and switches. If the game had more mechanics for the player use then the tutorial would've been too short so I think the developers handled the pacing pretty well because of the limited mechanics to learn for the game.

However I feel like the level hands everything to the player, there's no puzzle to solve in this tutorial other than timing and the spacing of flying over to the next ledge and jumping on the enemy. A small puzzle could've improved the stagnation of events this tutorial.

Screen shots

thumbnails for Game design

Board game!!

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Print and Play test

For my print and Play I created a maze that was divided into fours, and tried to make sure that they connected from all sides as much I could design it.  From I what I found was that the board was too small to keep a track of where the pieces of the Minotaur and Theseus' character were placed at. And that I needed to add more variety of cards and colored squares to acquire the cards since they are a major part of the game play. During this phase I really concentrating on how the gameplay should be above and then focus on the art.

I still need to rethink many things about my game like how many turns it takes for the color squares to eligible to give more cards or if the colors of the square really matter. Or where the possible exits should be at and what the penalty for losing Ariadne for Theseus since she is a major point in the game. But overall I think I have a solid idea of what my game is supposed to be.

Make shift game: Green Apples and Swish

For my make-shift game I partnered up with Giselle and her Green Apples game, I had "Swish" . Her and I combined the two games to make a new game to the best of our efforts.  Her green apples game is a kid version of "cards against humanity" to my understanding. And my Swish Game is a matching game with transparent cards with colored circles on them, you have to match the position of the circles to fill the holes in Swish in order to win.

Well Transparent cards and written cards at our disposal we tried to combine the two to make a game of letters. Both of us, each selected one transparent card and five written ones, then we put the transperant card against all five cards. if the circle had a letter in it we would write it down- this continued until we were all done matching the Green Apple cards up to the Swish transperant card. then we had to use the letters to combine them into words. the person with the most words won the round. I lost all of the rounds.