Soul Season

Co-director, Gameplay Programmer, Technical Game Designer, Narrative Designer

January 2024 - April 2024

Project Team: USC Intermediate Game Project

Genre: Cooking/Management Game

Engine: Unity

Version Control: Perforce

Coding Language: C#

Special Skills: Yarnspinner

Release Platform: itch.io

Soul Season is a Cooking/Management Game where you play as the Grim Reaper, having broken out of your dead-end job ferrying souls to the underworld with a plan to start a new restaurant for monsters.

However, trouble rumbles from down below, as Satan wants you back working for the man…

Will your restaurant survive the week, or is it doomed to go six feet under?

As a Co-director I was responsible for:

Filling in a weekly breakdown chart and assigning tasks to team members
Working with our Berklee Audio Team / Game Artist to maintain deliverable deadlines
Ensuring our game's vision was kept persistent after our Vertical Slice milestone

As a Gameplay Programmer I was responsible for:

Creating a Grill Manager that handled meat objects when switching scenes between levels
Creating an Order Manager that generated food orders with semi-randomized toppings/wait times to add replay value to levels
Creating an interactable apartment, cooking stall, and ghost-hunting scene

As a Technical Game Designer I was responsible for:

Inspiring a balance of stress/panic in levels and serenity/reflection in the apartment hub screen
Using playtests and feedback forms to adjust the difficulty of five game levels

As a Narrative Designer I was responsible for:

Creating memorable characters and an engaging story within the confines of six telephone calls in the apartment hub screen
Advising our game artist on character and background art