Review of my work at Dreamtronic as Game Design Intern & Programmer.
A Soccer game with multiple gameplays whether you play keeper or offensive. Up to 8 players on the same table for 1 and a half minute of friendly jostling and true Brazilian ambiance.
A Pool game with typical London pub feeling. 8 players at the same time, it doesn’t quite look like pool anymore but it may be the best game I’ve done so far on a touch device. Dead simple but damn efficient.
Both games are based on the same mecanics but slightly tweaked not to recognize them. Basically, you have a slingshot effect and the way you actually affect the object with it changes over the two games.
Soccer Game
Here I wanted to create two gameplays in one. Three main advantages to that are:
- replayability
- actual sport coherence
- team decisions.
When you play keeper, the gameplay is the same as the one in fussball, you slide your player up and down a rod, trying to catch the balls coming from the opponent’s side.
When you play offense, you drag over a ball to kick it in the opponent’s goals. you have to take it on your side of the pitch so it takes your team’s color.
Pool Game :
Many white balls are available on the table and only one of your color. You have to cue your ball with any white ball you like. To do so, you will have to move around the table and in the same process disturb the other players, which really is the gist of it.
Only two weeks and I had the impression I had created more than ever. Two games all by myself is a good proof that touch devices is what turns me on (work-wise).
This intership was a base for a « memoir » (hard to call it that way but that’s the actual term. The problematic was « Multiplayer interactions on large-framed touch devices ». Here’s a link to download it (in french only) : Mémoire
Specials thanks to Clément Chardevel, Nicolas Lolmède and Eve Barbara.
