Baaa-Lend In

Team Size: 5
Project Duration: 4 months
Software Used: Unity
Languages Used: C#
Primary Role(s): Technical Designer

Baaa-Lend In is a 2.5D point-and-click, humorous, visual novel game made with Unity. You are a goat that has been mistaken as the president. You must Baaa-Lend In if you want to further the goat agenda.

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Snippet of Game Design Document

Design Pillars: Story-based, Choices matter, Comedic.

Contributions

Technical Design:

Wireframing UI designs in Photoshop
- Close collaboration with UI/UX team members
Advocated for accessibility features like difficulty selection and tutorials

Ballot box on a desk in the foreground. Door with exit sign in the background. Default, hover, pressed versions of exit door/button. Cursor default and onhover versions, goat hand and goat hand with ballot.

Main Menu Wireframe

Difficult and Easy oval buttons. Easy button has a short description. Hover and Pressed button mockups with goat hoof stamped into it.

Difficulty Selection Wireframe

Main designer and programmer for goat/human bar value mechanic and 3D applicant sorting minigame
- Worked off of item manipulation codebase provided by other programmer
- Programmed randomized generation of random applications using prefabs and instantiation
- Implemented interactive tutorial
- Designed and implemented results screen with clear feedback

Applicant Sorting Minigame

Player picks up a piece of lined paper with a goat with horns and angel wings. It's labeled Baphomet. They drop it.

Post-Mortem

What went well:

I was able to get the other minigame designer on board with implementing a hands-on tutorial. I admire the way he implemented his.
My collaboration with the UI artists went smoothly thanks to detailed wireframes.

What went wrong:

The gameplay tutorial did not teach the applicant scoring system in the way that I'd hoped.
Some programmers had trouble learning Unity, and some features took longer than expected.

What I learned:

I got firsthand experience with the need to ask play testers specific questions. I had questions that couldn't truly be answered and verified with the first vague prompt that came to mind.
I gained a better understanding of what's important for a good tutorial. My tutorial was part of the gameplay, but the scoring system, which I considered important, was only explained through text. If I were to do it again, I would ensure the players could go through a mini-version of the minigame and scoring screen before getting into the real thing, for as many times as they'd like.
I gained familiarity with Unity 3D, scriptable objects, prefabs, and instantiation.