KALLE CARMBACK
Game Designer
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Gravity Derby
The scrapyard
ASSIGNMENT
Our assignment was to built a gacha game with focus on the monetary system.
Project Time: 3 weeks
Team: 3 designers, programmers, art, Sound
Engine; Unity
OUR AIM
Gravity Derby is a race gacha played in three scenes.
We wanted to create a game that was more than just a gacha lottery – we wanted to addd some kind of fun gameplay. So we imagined a scrapyard where the big cane claw visually worked as the classic gacha claw. You pay currency to work the crane and gain car parts that you bring to the next scene – the garage.
In the garage you put the parts together to build a soapbox car – the better parts, the better car. You can sacrifice parts you don’t want or need in the grinder to gain scrap, use to upgrade remaining parts.
In the last scene you race the car down a hill. The longer you get the more currency you gain. Your engine is gravity and the quality of your parts.
MY ROLE
We were a game design team of three designers on this project. We were all quite different in both working process and preferences. Gravity Derby was a compromise trying to include all designers wishes. My roles in the project was:
- Game concept
- Game Design (sacrifice, upgrade and fusion mechanics)
- UI design and help with UI 2D art
Sketches UI design
Sketches Garage Scene and Scrapyard
Work process
As designers we took on different parts of the game. my responsibility ended up in the garage designing layout and the different mechanics that should be there. How to ensemble your car and upgrade, sacrifice or fusion parts
LEARNINGS
This project didn’t end up how it was described in the GDD for several reasons. I realized that a small project like this needs a team that work together, as passioned for one idea – try to fit every idea in might seam democratic but will end up in a mess.
tHE RESULT
Necessary downscoping and a too wide vision ended up quite messy. I think the concept has some bright sides and fun mechanics but we wasn’t able to make them all as intended.
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