Aierlon
Project Summary
You are chosen to compete in the “Trials of the gods”, a gauntlet of challenges and puzzles deep inside a Mesopotamian temple. Through your skills of archery and ancient gifts bestowed upon you by the gods progress through each increasingly difficult challenge in order to claim leadership for your god. Your arrows are paramount to your survival. Use them to break targets to reveal exit doors, drop hidden platforms, and use your skills to quickly navigate fast-breaking platforms before perishing in the abyss below. Only one champion ever emerges from the temple. Will you be that champion? Or will you disappear deep inside the temple never to be seen again? Trust is the key.
Development Process
This was a project made during the Fall semester of 2021 for Marist College's "Game Studio" course in which the 24-student graduating class of Games majors were split into 2 groups of 12 for a "development simulation" that required us to make a full game project before the end of the semester. We were responsible for every step of the process from brainstorming & pitching to playtesting & release. Our professor took a very hands-off approach so development was a trial-by-fire process in which I learned invaluable lessons about time & team management in game development.
Scope management was a constant issue for us given our 15-week development cycle. None of the students involved had ever taken on a project this large before so we made sure early on that we had a clear outline of what features & content needed to be in the game in order to meet the standards of a minimum viable product. We then considered any additions or alterations in terms of impact on our ability to have a finished product at the end of our 15 weeks. We instated a hard deadline of Thanksgiving break to stop creating new content and focus the entire final month of development to implementation & polish. I'm proud of what we were able to accomplish in such a small amount of time and I came out of the other end of the project with my time management skills (in the short-term and long-term) much improved.