Word Games
Genre: Word, Puzzle
Role: Game Designer, Level Designer
Cross Wordly
Platform: Android, Facebook Instant
Software used: Cocos Creator 2D, Google Suite, Adobe Suite, JIRA
Brief Description:
Crossworldly is a Daily Crossword Game inspired from the viral internet game 'Wordle'
Project Type: Professional Project
Duration: December 2022 - 2023 (ongoing)
Team Size: 7
Objective/Brief & Key Responsibilities:
Joined the team at a live-ops phase where they were targeting improvements in Specific KPIs namely, D0 engagement and D1 Retention. My responsibilities since are to analyze data with the Product Manager to plan and design the features, improvements, or changes required to address the next set of problem areas highlighted through the Data Analysis.
Take Aways:
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Live ops Experience
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Release Planning with Producers and Product managers
Achievements:
Word Search: Blitz Scapes
Platform: Facebook Instant
Software used: Cocos Creator 2D, Google Suite, Adobe Suite, JIRA
Brief Description:
Word Search is a 3D Word Puzzle Game where players have to find as many words as they can from a Randomly generated 3D Shape each day. The goal is to use up all the cubes while also scoring the highest.
Project Type: Professional Project
Duration: May 2022 - August 2022
Team Size: 3
Objective/Brief & Key Responsibilities:
The project started as an experiment by a developer to test the 3D capabilities of the engine we were using and eventually got picked up as an official project. The brief was to design, develop and release the game within 2 months. My responsibilities were to make design specifications and UI flows for the whole game and any additional features being added after launch and to coordinate with the solo artist and developer working on this with me as the producer of the project.
Take Aways:
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3D word puzzle generation experience
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Matchmaking, leaderboard and other social feature design
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UI & UX for the whole project
Quote-Its
Platform: Facebook Instant
Software used: Cocos Creator 2D, Google Suite, Adobe Suite, JIRA
Brief Description:
Quote-its is a word puzzle game where the player solves a variety of clues to guess words that reveal a Quote or Interesting facts related to the theme of the puzzle. The game tries to replicate the trend of sharing images with inspiring quotes or interesting facts on text groups by family members generating such images once a player solves a puzzle.
Project Type: Professional Project
Duration: August 2022 - November 2022
Team Size: 1 - (External Development and Art)
Objective/Brief & Key Responsibilities:
The project was an approved concept waiting for a designer to pick it up and expand upon it. After being assigned the project my major tasks were to make design specifications and UI flows for the whole game and any additional features being added after launch and to coordinate external developers regarding any bugs, changes or additions required.
Take Aways:
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Experience making Puzzle Design and Balancing tools on Excel
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Word Puzzle Design and Balancing
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UI flow for the whole game
Solved
Share a frame by frame animation of your Hangman's progress
Hangman Tournament
Platform: Facebook Instant
Software used: Cocos Creator 2D, Google Suite, Adobe Suite, JIRA
Brief Description:
Hangman Tournament is a 2D Word Puzzle Game aimed to give the players a nostalgic experience playing the classic Hangman Word Game with paper and pen style art and animations and familiar rules and gameplay.
Project Type: Professional Project
Duration: February 2022 - May 2022
Team Size: 3
Objective/Brief & Key Responsibilities:
The project was assigned to me by the Head of Design as a personally pitched idea of his. The brief was to design a classic hangman experience to capitalize on the word game trend on Facebook instant games and use nostalgia to drive in new players. My responsibilities were to make design specifications and UI flows for the whole game and any additional features being added after launch and to coordinate with the solo artist and developer working on this with me as the producer of the project.
Take Aways:
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Technical Artist Role Experience
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2D Word Puzzle Design
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UI and UX to create a nostalgic experience
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First project as a solo designer and Producer in the studio
