Game design:
- Fully responsible for Match 3 part (game mechanics, UX, level objects, balancing, tutorials,…)
- Therefore working together with many different departments all the time (Art, Dev, Product, Localization, Marketing,…)
Level design + Level creation workflow:
- Creation of hundreds of levels
- Making it possible to create 1000 levels * 3 tiers = 3000 levels per year (with just 2 level designers)
- Concepted + created several tools to achieve that, e. g.:
- Concepted level editor that allows for ultra-fast level creation + iteration
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- Concepted a level layout generator that helps generating new level ideas
- Concepted a level object generator that helps generating new level object ideas
- Created an Excel sheet + macro that reads out all level information from json files and allows to easily change moves and amout of colors for thousands of levels (Excel + VBA)
- Maintaining a tool that shows in browser what each level looks like (PHP)
- Maintaining a Google sheet that imports data from Periscope give quick overview of collected user data (Google Script / JavaScript)
- Created sheet that suggests how to rebalance levels to reach the desired level difficulty + amount of cascades
- and many many many more tools & sheets…
Company workflow optimizations:
- Adapted several tools mentioned above or created new ones for ‚Jelly Splash‘ and ‚Bubble Island 2‘
- Created a proof of concept for „universal“ AI + Level Generator for puzzle games (Unity / C#)
A/B tests:
- planned & set up A/B tests with different difficulty curve shapes
Sounds:
- Communication (briefing & feedback) with external sound designer
- Implementation of sounds & music in game
User tests:
- Regular user tests to test e. g. new level objects or tutorials and to check for further improvements of the general Match 3 part
Marketing:
- Regularly recording gameplay videos for Marketing to promote new level objects, deliver interesting and exciting Match 3 gameplay or promote other new features like e. g. playing in landscape mode
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.wooga.tropicats_tropical_cats_puzzle_paradise&hl=en
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/app/tropicats/id1215220850
(May 2016 – April 2019)