Cryptids
DESCRIPTION
Play as a corsair during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1715). Charge to find a black powder sailer, you arrived at a French fortress after an English assault.
ROLE
Level Design Narrative Design
GENERAL INFORMATION
Action-adventure 2022 PC Blockout
TOOLS
Unreal Engine 4.27 PowerPoint Discord Tortoise SVN
THE PROJECT
It was a short narrative’s student project; we had to product a level with narration and environment story telling.
The goal is to produce a mission where an NPC is the main objective. It’s his mission, most of the story or the events need to speak about him or about what have he done.
We were a group of three this time compose with different roles:
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One Narrative Designer
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One Technical Designer
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One Level Designer
MECHANICS
This time, we can choose the game’s mechanics we want, but the focus was clearly on the narrative.
So we decided to don’t implanted complex features.
The mechanics included:
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Jump
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Climb
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Interact
CONSTRAINTS AND SOLUTIONS
The first wall was to decide where the story take place.
We choose the Spanish Succession (1701-1715) period, for the Caribbean environment, the pirates and corsairs battle and the reference to the Assassin’s creed: Black flag® and Assassin’s creed: Rogue®.
This decision will decide the background of the main character and the main NPC we will meet. In this exercise, the NPC is as well important than the main character but was more difficult to write than the player.
Indeed, in our project the player just crosses the level and understand what happen when he arrives.
However, the scene was a post battle with the French versus the English army and make an understandable narrative of what happened was a tough one mission.
Finally, we decided to maintain the fortress and the post-battle context, reinforce the NPC traits and make the mission more satiric than a very serious quest. This kind of mission the players can remember after finishing the game or at least the main quest.
Team Members
Ethan Melis - Narrative Designer
Anthony Besse - Technical Designer
