Skybound

Graduation project at DADIU

Goal

To ideate, develop and release a full video game experience as a interdisciplinary team.

Problem

I worked as the narrative game designer and partly as a programmer, responsible for writing and implementing narrative in the game design experience.

Solution

Using my competencies in the design field, I helped develop the game concept, in the preproduction stages and worked with narrative implementation as well as writing and recording dialogue. The result was a game released for Windows on Itch.io and Steam.

See Game

Project Context

This is a production developed alongside Half Home Games as part of the DADIU program. The team consisted of 11 individuals and developed the game Skybound over the course of 10 weeks. Our production was a bit unique as we developed the game over multiple rounds. First was a 3 week development, second a 7 week development. Because of that we got to refine and rethink certain aspects of the game after the first 3 weeks.

Week 1 & 4
Preproduction
I participated in the collective brainstorm and game concept development. Helping in the creation of a shared vision for the game. Being responsible for the narrative I worked on writing a narrative treatment for the story.
Initial development
Working with C#, I created the systems for localization and dialogue. Furthermore I created help programs to streamline and automate my workflow.

Week 2-3
Week 5 - 9
Narrative work
Wrote the narrative of the game. Implemented a system for “running dialogue” and came up with ideas for a textlog system, for the games lore, to improve game flow. I also worked with actors to record voices for the main narrative.
Polish
I created the games intro cinematic as well as the trailer. Additional time was spent working on bugs and potential errors in the manuscript.

Week 10

The initial narrative treatment.

Narrative in Twine workspace

Narrative implemented in game.

Skybound

Graduation project at DADIU

Goal

Problem

Solution

Project Context

Week 1 & 4

Week 2-3

Week 5 - 9

Week 10