Mario Barone - Game Design

I never imagined I’d be able to level design. Now 3 years later I work as a Designer, and prototype in my spare time!

This is a playground I’m piecing together. It functions as a training ground where players experiment and test their skills, whilst showcasing core elements of the game in a safe space.

Today we successfully completed our first day at PAX! The halls were full of intimidating and amazing games, the accumulation of years of hard work and sleepless nights from our sibling developers!

The announcement was made, the gates unlocked and then the swarm of people flooded in keen to try out the next generation of games! At first we were shy but we began reaching out and talking to people which led to a great reception of the game.

The game was full of bugs and tiny things that we wanted to fix but overall people seemed to thoroughly enjoy it! We've learnt a bunch today and know what we can do to improve for the buils tomorrow!

Along the way we were approached by a veteran of the games industry who seemed interested in our product, asking if we'd be interested in collaborating!

PAX is almost here which means as a team we were all going crazy today trying to get as many improvements in the demo as possible before showing the project to audiences for the first time!

Game development typical is a huge mess of combined talents and skills, and sometimes along the way, it’s hard to see the final picture- BUT!

Unveiled has come leaps and bounds, changing in design, style, narrative and overall playable experience, all for the better! We’ve made some major changes in terms of design:

Larger, more open spaces

More focus on guiding and leading the player 

More reliance on the bow and the arrows (and powers that come with those...)

Smaller, shorter, more tangible experience

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Unveiled VR is well underway, with the majority of our core mechanics in and working we're making some decent progress!

Our biggest target now is improving polish and feel, ensuring our bowplay hits gold.

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Testing a new puzzle mechanic out for our game UnveiledVR! Hopefully, it works just as good in VR tomorrow!

Block-outs for playable areas in our upcoming VR project!

We’re slowly plotting along with our VR Archery game, our industry-panel presentations are coming up soon, so we thought adding some placeholder Mixamo animations would be great.

The team has been working hard getting as much in as we can before the panel date next week! 

Slowly chipping away at this one, having most of the environment destructible by the boss and the player has its own challenges

I thought I’d start sharing progress of the end of year project. This is the final room for the playable prototype, where the player will face off against a towering enemy!

Our pitch trailer went through so in my free time I’ve been working out my modular kit muscles.

People have inboxed me asking about what the next project will be, and as I’ve told many, I had news for June/July! My partner in crime @danielstuddert and I have just finished throwing together a pre-production-pitch-trailer for the next big thing!

*full video further down (best with sound) The trailers will be voted upon and if we get enough votes, we get to make the game!

And now, I present our pitch trailer!