Red is the Enemy
Fast-Paced 3D FPS Shooter Game
Destroy and tear through defenses that block your way with the ability to spot weak points of enemies and vulnerabilities of infrastructure.
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Take your revenge and escape from the cage you are confined in.
Production Process
Narration
Mechanics & Lore
"Red is the Enemy" is a project that was approached with the aspect of being abstract and minimal in narration, focusing more on the engagement and fun through the game's mechanics.
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Hence, understanding and finalizing the mechanics will be the first priority for this project.
World Building
Level Scope
Although the game's narration approach is abstract and simple, it does not take away the importance of the layout and location decided based on the theme that the game is going for.
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Therefore, finalizing the world and where the character is going to be throughout the game helps to determine the layout and its level scope.
Engagement
Enemy Types
As the game revolves around combat, different enemies and behavior types become an important aspect of the gameplay experience. Hence, the design of such enemies must reflect uniqueness as well as different forms of challenges towards the player.
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Their behavior would also need to take into consideration of the space and location that they are set in.
Mechanics
As the core or ability that the character can do is identifying weaknesses and vulnerabilities of structures and enemies alike, I can approach the design in both puzzle and combat situations for the players to experience.
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However, it is a challenge to show significance of the combat heavy approach than of puzzle. Hence, it is relied upon how combat encounters and execution is made to bring forward the game's genre.
World Building
To find out and understand what is required to improve on the game's core mechanics, a simple draft layout is created to test and get feedback.
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After that, researching real-life floorplans and infrastructure towards the game's theme would help determine the location and start on the actual level design for the game.
Gameplay Test Layout
World Mood Board
Reiterate Layout
Enemies
As I have learned that making as many types of enemies as I can does not necessarily increase the engagement and challenge for the player. On the contrary, it might cause frustration and unfairness instead.
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Hence, the approach is more on how I can create a small group of simple enemies but are unique in each way that they can bring new challenges to players individually or as a group.
Hence, I created 4 types of enemies and a final boss encounter. Each of them is unique to one another, but devastating on their own or going as a group. It heavily relies on my programmers to execute their behaviors and be tested thoroughly.
Roller
Speed Movement.
Rams towards players.
Drone
-Goes as a group.
Stays at safe distance away from the player.
Fires burst shots.
Destructor
Heavy Construct.
Shield Protector to block attacks.
Two emitters that provide energy for the shield.
Fire explosive shots at a slow rate.
Eliminator
Similar to Roller.
Fire slow shots.
However, when it is overly damaged, initiates self destruct and pursues the player.
Experience on creating "Red is the Enemy"
This is by far the most challenging project I have created among the rest. This is due to unforeseen circumstances that led to an overhaul in the design for the project as well as the tight schedule to hold as a sole designer for the team.
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However, it was a project I can be happy with what we have delivered, a unique design and aesthetic of a 3D FPS combat game.