Sandbox Battlefield
- Team Size: 4
- Type: Autobattler Game
- Skills: C#, UI Design, Game Balance
- Tools: Unity, Visual Studio, Github, Trello
Developed in a production studio course, my role on this team was programming focused on the game's shop and game balancing. I learned to
make UI utilizing Unity's UI system. By taking feedback from external and internal playtest, I was able to iterate on the shop's UI and
functionalities. The feedback I got from the first major iteration of the shop was that it felt like too much was going on, hard to follow, not
intuitive and too much reading to do. The unit purchasing screen became a scrolling shop interface. Less cards are now on the screen at once and
it allowed for the size of unit cards to be increased. This size increase enabled me to add the stat information to the front of the cards and
get rid of the flip card functionality. Then I requested for art assets to replace stat text, such as "health", to reduce the amount
of reading required. The ability purchasing screen became a toybox inventory of purchased units where you can clearly see each unit that was
bought. Instead of having purchasable ability cards, having an upgrade button on the purchased unit makes for better association between the unit
and its specific ability. Although there is less information about abilities, the ability names are pretty self explanatory and I opted for a
play and learn experience for the player that fits with the theme of playing with toys in a sandbox. Overall making the shop's flow more
streamlined for the user. Lastly, I made tool tips on the upgrade buttons to show the cost and ability names. Balancing units and abilities was
a mixture of playtesting, and using a spreadsheet to find values that made people feel each unit served a purpose while the game's difficulty
increases.
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