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Game Design Document

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Shifty Shroud is a stealth game where you play as a mouse named Shroud with the main purpose of finding and eating all the cheese in the cheese factory. With the help of his big mouse buddies, he has broken into the factory and is raring to go! 

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Game Genre

• Stealth

• Escape

• Single Player

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Platform

• Windows PC (Itch.io)

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Engine

• Unity

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Time Spent on Project

• May 2nd 2022 - June 10th 2022 (6 weeks)

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My Role(s)

• Game Designer

• Programmer

• Sound Designer

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Software I Used

• Unity

• Photoshop

• Audacity

• Discord

• Trello

• Google Drive

• 7-zip

• ScreenToGif

• Diagrams.net

• Visual Studio

• GitKraken

• Google Docs

• Google Sheets

• Chiptone

Gameplay Summary

Shifty Shroud is a 2D level-based top-down puzzle game. The player can control both a mouse and big mice. The mouse can only travel along a set path and must reach the end of that path, represented by a slice of cheese, to complete the level. The big mice can be used in a variety of ways to help the mouse reach the end of the path safely. Obstacles will include things such as: static lasers that block the mouse’s path and security cats that will send big mice back to their starting positions or fail the level if the mouse is caught in them. The player must learn how to use the mouse and big mice together in order to get past all the obstacles and clear the 5 levels of the game.

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My Overview of The Project

I worked on this project with 2 other designers, and we were tasked by the teacher (who was acting as a client) with designing a "stealth game" the criteria was pretty open and we were allowed to create any kind of game so long as it fit within the stealth genre. After some brainstorming with the others, we decided on creating a stealth puzzle game as the idea of designing puzzle levels where you couldn't be detected intrigued us. The project went very well, and I am proud of how it turned out. I believe that the highlight of the project was how well the team problem solved and overcame the goals set by the client. For context, we would have meetings with the client periodically each week and would discuss the progress of the game as well as what changes they thought needed to be made. Some of these changes drastically altered our plans, however our team worked to overcome this challenge by adapting and being flexible with our ideas. Communication was key in this area, and I believe that on the whole, we did well in ensuring everyone knew what had to be done and what changes were being made. 

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My Contributions

• Worked on GDD

• Logged and fixed bugs

• Programmed parts of the game

• Tweaked level designs

• Conducted meetings with client and team

• Created and conducted interviews with playtesters

• Iterated on advice, criticisms and thoughts of playtesters and client

• Created User Interface concepts

• Created HUD and all UI menus 

• Created and maintained asset list and Trello

• Created and presented multiple game pitches as we tweaked and redesigned the game

• Created laser particle effect and programmed it

• Created shader for laser

• Created team logo

• Sourced and implemented sound effects into the game

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