Daniel House
Game Designer
Unannounced
Third Person Hero Shooter
Studio
Army Game Studio
Platform
Playstation
PC
Engine
Unreal Engine 4
Tools Used
Gameplay Ability System
UE4 Blueprints
Miro
Photoshop
Team Size
~30
Studio
Army Game Studio
(part of SAIC)
Platform
Playstation
Windows PC
Engine
Unreal Engine 4
Primary Tools
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Gameplay Ability System
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UE4 Bluprints
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Miro
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Photoshop
Team Size
30
Responsibilities:
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Character Ability and Skills Design
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Combat Systems Design
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Character Movement Design
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Playtest conducting and iteration
Variant: Limits takes a revolutionary step forward in helping students learn course material such as calculus limits. The game offers a high quality gaming experience through an immersive 3D environment.
Responsibilities
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Early Prototyping
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Paper Prototyping
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Level Design & Layout
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Educational Research
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Quality Assurance
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Playtesting
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Open & closed operations
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Variant
Adventure Education
Variant Details
As a Game Designer at Texas A&M’s LIVE Lab, I was tasked designing, paper prototyping, digital prototyping, and conducing user studies for what became Variant: Limits. My work in designing ways to both teach the core basics of Limits and Limit Laws as well as present these mechanics in a fun and challenging form of gameplay was then taken to Triseum (an educational game development studio in Bryan, TX), to be published. This job gave me the opportunity to work in a production environment with a young team that tested our communication skills and work with very real deadlines.
The game was actively built in Unity, however, some of the design prototypes were built in Unreal Engine 4.
Project Design Goals
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Research and prototype early mechanics that would "teach" early level limits in a fun way
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Follow managements design pipeline
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Paper prototypes -> Digital prototypes -> Package and release for Triseum employees
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Demonstrate research and design skills in an environment closer to the industry's standard of tight deadlines, upper management, and meaningful work