Have a nice death

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Have a Nice Death is a 2D action roguelike where you play as an overworked Death, whose employees have run rampant, completely throwing off the balance of souls - and his vacation plans. In order to restore order, you'll have to grab your trusty scythe and show your employees who's boss.

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I've been working on the game since it was released in early access. My task is mainly to manage the procedural generation of the game and to make room architecture.The different worlds have their own orientation which brings different constraints. Each major update is accompanied by a new world.

The room creation process allowed to iterate quickly by placing tiles directly on the left side. Just update the room and place it in the generation bucket to be able to test directly in game. During the creation you can see the result with the baked art kit to get rid of all the graphic artifacts instantly.

The worlds represent the different departments of Death. Inc and are divided by floor. Each floor is a chunk composed by a series of rooms that are generated by seeds.We group the rooms by type and create the seeds with nodal graphs. This allows us to give at our chunks the orientation we want while keeping the benefits of the procedural generation.

To date, the game received 3 major updates before the release:Fast Foods Update: Introduction of the junk food world designed to be a vertical production lineNatural Disasters Update: Introduction of the world of natural disasters and improvement of all the other worlds of the gameExecutive decisions Update: Improvement of the general level design and balancing of the procedural generation

Bro's race

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intentions

· Give a strong impression of speed.· Influence the player's vision with curves and buildings.· Incorporate shortcuts: "high risk / high reward.· Play with the player's disorientation.· Create a multiplayer experience.

When creating the layout, we first defined the points of interest (Looping, garage and high turn).The goal was to find an interesting way to connect these points. So we worked on a vertical level design that gave the player the impression of going down along the buildings of a futuristic city.The circuit is incorporated into the city so that the player always has a reference point for his orientation.

The layout is very winding and requires the player to adapt his speed.The width of the roads also gives more possibilities to take the apex of the curves. The width is designed to allow the 4 players to pass each other easily without being slowed down by the collisions of the ledges.

city chase

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context

City Chase is a pixel art inspired first person shooter. I made the prototype and documentation in about 40 days for my 2nd year project.I used this project to challenge myself and personally evaluate my level design skills and my knowledge of Unreal Engine.It was very rewarding to be able to overcome the problems I encountered during the project by myself.

The challenge was to design a fun prototype in a short time. So I chose simple mechanics that allowed mixing them to have an instant feeling, Shoot / Throw / Pick up.The player can't reload but can throw his weapon on the enemies: Disoriented enemies can be disarmed.To create diversity, the prototype contains 3 different weapons: A pistol, a machine gun and a baseball bat.

In this prototype, the character is chased by the police and must escape through the city to get revenge on an associate who betrayed him.The player starts in a hotel room and will have to escape through alleys and a store before going through the subway to reach a residential area.He will faces many obstacles on his way that will force him to improvise.

Colony

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intentions

· Create a map that encourages exploration.· Orient the player's movements with a landmark.· Make the player feel small in a gigantic world.· Connect zones so that the use of vehicles is interesting.

The map contains several spotting points that allow the player to plan his approaches. The player can then evaluate the situation in front of him while staying out of sight of the enemies.On this map these points are important for the player to feel the gigantism of the landmark, and have the impression that the area is vast.

apartment

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Intentions

· Vary the gameplay through space.· Create two different bomb sites:· Integrate long lines in partitioned spaces.· Create a logical progression in the game environment.

The lines allow the defenders to travel less distance before the confrontation which balances the fact that the attacking base is close to the bomb sites.They also play a role during a point retake when the bomb is planted because they force the attackers to take risks if they want to position themselves on these lines (by crossing the point for example).These defensive points allow securing the rotation of the defenders when they are in danger.

Attackers who already have the building's control must blow up their laboratory and hangar to destroy the evidence when the defenders arrive.It was logical that the attackers were closer to the bomb sites. The attackers can take advantage of the division of the defending forces, as they can reposition themselves more quickly between the sites thanks to the shorter connectors.