If you need to be quick, you can click on the folder you're interested in.
But I recommend looking at the projects because I tend to put on a focus on complementarity.

Experiences

JAN 2024 - NOW
Game & Level Designer on AA project
Under NDA so can't talk about the projectMy missions are :
- Game & Level Design for different mini games in a natural environment
- Lead of my own team
- Work on behavior trees for AI
- Integration/Balancing and QA
- Adapting 3C, mechanics and level to different difficulties

Miscellenneaous Game &
Level & Narrative Design Doc

Pitch

Gameplay Video

Responsibilities

On this project, I worked closely with another game designer and I was in charge of:

• - Game Design

• - Level Design

• - System Design

• - Extra Work on Narrative Design

Game Design

As a game designer, my missions with my duo were:- Set up a first benchmark for myself and the team to share a common language- Brainstormed and formalized the pillars of experiences and intentions with the team- Formalized the mechanics and gameplay loops

I also took the initative to make a one page document of the project for the team and ourselves to stay in the same direction.

• You can also find a Game Concept Document here

Level Design

Biome Chart for the full game

Two concepts of biomes made by our concept artist that were turned into 4 different zones in the level design for the vertical slice.

The level design was constructed around landmarks made to be visible from afar but also meant to be explored in different directions to enhance that open world aspect of going on a stroll on your bicycle.
An intention I had was also to avoid a too much guided exploration like going from point A to point B.
That's why, collectibles, point of interests and characters were placed more often on the path to a landmark to distract the players than on a landmark.

Vistas were also designed, they are meant for the players to enjoy a view.
But also in that one we can see Jay is sitting on a rock that is showing a direct view towards our other character to visually portray their relationship in the way they are placed in the world.

Another level design tool we used are Point of Interest such as a pond and a heart shaped lake that the characters can mention so it can be used when writing a dialog to guide the player towards a direction without giving them a quest.

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System Design

As a system designer, my missions were:- Designing the behavior of the NPC- Designing a progression system

An excel was made to determine how many of each collectibles would be needed for the scrapbook/progression system.It was revised upwards because, the player would tend to not take the maximal space available and would rather spreadthe collectibles and carefully create a page.As you only need one elements to complete a page if wanted, it's okay to have more that necessary.

Extra on Narrative Design

Our game being narrative driven, a lot of work including the level design and more were tied to the narrative design.
We've worked together with Leo at the beginning of the production on worldbuilding and brainstorming characters and subjects of discussions and such.

Collaboratively with the sound designer and game artists, I've established level design references and mood and characters/discussions tied to hose places.

I also made characters sheets meant to be iterated during the production for Steve and our main character who is more of an avatar but needed to be fleshed out still.

• Quick Character Sheet made for the Avatar

• Quick Character Sheet made for Steve

Based on a first dialog system designed by Leo and myself. He iterated on it with a paper prototype to get feedbacks from me on it and do playtests with our UX/UR.

It works like a string of discussion

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We start off with a subject of discussion that we can find while exploring or when talking with another character to start a conversation with a character.
To that, we add a tea to share a cup and chitchat. At the end of the dialog, we are rewarded with a subject complementing our first subject. That we can piece together to further complete.
We have different types of teas, most of the time they add flavors and nuances to dialogs but sometimes they create branching dialog.

• Here's a link to the feature document of the gossip system.

My version of a string of discussion

Based on the "biome chart" I designed and the characters we imagined. I designed and written a narrative path from the gossip system made by Leo. It all begins with a protein powder we found and end with new informations on the relationships between the inhabitants.
The protein powder also enables discussions on body image and masculinity.

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• Here's the google sheet for it.

A version was made on Twine but it doesn't really fit in with our intentions of having multiple short stories rather than a big one and also focus on the transmission and evolution of information and personal perspective.

Responsibilities

As the only game designer on the project, I had the opportunity to work in close collaboration with each member of my team:· Designing and iterating on 3C's, mechanics, gameplay, rules, physics.- Establish metrics to rationalize a level in close collaboration with my programmer- Tight collaboration with my UX/UR and programmer to push accessibility forward with a one button one joystick gameplay- Work in collaboration with my artist to do mocap with a martial artist· Writing a Game Design Document.· Pitch and worldbuilding.· Communication and conveying the intention and design to the team

Your objective as a bao is to not to be eaten and stay empty from any sort of food. To do so, you will have to crush food on the opposite of the arena to make your opponent slip by filling a slippery gauge and then fill him. After you fill them 3 times with food, you will win the game.

Filling Fighting being a versus game, a lot of it comes down to reflexes and precise controls. So I've worked in close collaboration with a programmer to encompass that intention:- A script was made to precisely make the bao moves in the desired direction for 1s and measure the distance traveled.- From the middle of the field, the character has to be able to reach each side in 1s.- Where the ball lands is decided by having more or less catchable areas depending on the position of the one smashing and the direction stick.

What if I'm the train

From the theme, we get three subjects possible, one is decided on by the traits of the characters.
Then the dialogue is determined by the direction taken.To focus on short stories, touch upon different subjects and point of views and not overcomplicate the system.
It has been decided to not add each new passengers on the train into the conversation.
It could also make the conversation grow stale instead a new theme will be decided upon.
However we could add variation by having more than two passengers talking or having subjects needing three traits and give the passengers two traits instead.

In the jam and given time, it was implemented this way on Bitsy.

Improvement Axis

Explicit more the traits of the characters in the writings to give a more explicit clue on which route is taken.

Gameplay Video

Biome Chart for the full game

Two concepts of biomes made by our concept artist that were turned into 4 different zones in the level design for the vertical slice.

The level design was constructed around landmarks made to be visible from afar but also meant to be explored in different directions to enhance that open world aspect of going on a stroll on your bicycle.
An intention I had was also to avoid a too much guided exploration like going from point A to point B.
That's why, collectibles, point of interests and characters were placed more often on the path to a landmark to distract the players than on a landmark.

Another level design tool we used are Point of Interest such as a pond and a heart shaped lake that the characters can mention so it can be used when writing a dialog to guide the player towards a direction without giving them a quest.

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Parkour Game on Unity WIP

Personal Project with a friend programmer of a parkour game

Intention: Create a thrilling parkour level that entices continuous forward movements and jumps

Rational Level Design

I tried to break down each mechanics in blocks and numbers to be able to easily tweak the parameters to quickly prototype and blockout a level.
It's not set in stone but more indicative of an intention. Then in the engine, we can properly tweak and playtest.

These parameters can be easily used to adjust the difficulty curve of a level.
Each mechanic can be turned into a block to construct a level in 2D or in the engine to blockout and more easily design a level and its difficulty depending on how tight each jumps are.

Here's an illustration of an easy passage, that we can see from how much room there is to manoeuvre and make mistakes.
(it's more an illustration than an example of a level)

Untitled

Ludum Dare 54: Walking Simulator Narrative Game

To support that intention, I wrote dialogues to convey different feelings and goals to the players. Then placed them in the level and implemented them with Yarn Spinner.
Each color is a type of dialogue that we put in a shadow.

By using that porthole mechanic, we designed five linear levels with rising intensity of weirdness and uncanniness.
Each colored circle is numbered with the dialogues in the google sheets.
Black ones are filler meant to give tension or be used as staging elements
Since it's am ambiance game, the focus was put into the staging by carefully choosing the dialogues to put in and also play with lights and the deconstruction of the train.

Level Design Exercises

WIP on Far Cry 5 Level Editor

How do you live like this ?

Narrative Game on Bitsy in Solo

• Play Here

Break into someone's flat and learn about the life of the robbed one.

Kill'N Clean it

Kill’n Clean It is a top down shooter with a funny and light set up, we control two characters with complementary and asymmetric skills.They are tasked with cleaning a house filled with alien and filthy blobs. The nature of the task, a simple spring cleaning and its origin, an invasive extraterrestrial race are poles apart from each other. It justifies an adequate opposite armament for our heroes. However, by their antagonistic nature, they become complementary in order to reach their goal.The game stands out by its symmetrical control of the characters which are moving with the center of the screen as orbit. They can move away from the center and toward the center while being able to spin around it.The complementarity of the characters and their symmetry is creating a nervous and fast experience.Kill’n Clean It offers a nervous and fun experience in which we exploit the duality of two complementary characters.Recommended to play with Xbox Controller.

• You can check the GDD made for the jam here ( in French )

Game Design

We got a melee character in orbit with a shooter and you move them as a tandem.
We wanted them to be complementary so we designed ennemies as blobs of different sizes needing the cooperation of the two characters to be killed or they would regenerate.

Level Design

Gameplay Video

Our game being narrative driven, a lot of work including the level design and more were tied to the narrative design.
We've worked together with my duo Leo at the beginning of the conception on worldbuilding and brainstorming characters and subjects of discussions and such.

Collaboratively with the sound designer and game artists, I've established level design references and mood and characters/discussions tied to hose places.

I also made characters sheets meant to be iterated during the production for Steve and our main character who is more of an avatar but needed to be fleshed out still.

• Quick Character Sheet made for the Avatar

• Quick Character Sheet made for Steve

Based on a first dialog system designed by Leo and myself. He iterated on it with a paper prototype to get feedbacks from me on it and do playtests with our UX/UR.

It works like a string of discussion

• Arrow Down

We start off with a subject of discussion that we can find while exploring or when talking with another character to start a conversation with a character.
To that, we add a tea to share a cup and chitchat. At the end of the dialog, we are rewarded with a subject complementing our first subject. That we can piece together to further complete.
We have different types of teas, most of the time they add flavors and nuances to dialogs but sometimes they create branching dialog.

• Here's a link to the feature document of the gossip system.

My version of a string of discussion

Based on the "biome chart" I designed and the characters we imagined. I designed and written a narrative path from the gossip system made by Leo. It all begins with a protein powder we found and end with new informations on the relationships between the inhabitants.
The protein powder also enables discussions on body image and masculinity.

• Arrow Down

• Here's the google sheet for it.

A version was made on Twine but it doesn't really fit in with our intentions of having multiple short stories rather than a big one and also focus on the transmission and evolution of information and personal perspective.

From the theme, we get three subjects possible, one is decided on by the traits of the characters.
Then the dialogue is determined by the direction taken.To focus on short stories, touch upon different subjects and point of views and not overcomplicate the system.
It has been decided to not add each new passengers on the train into the conversation.
It could also make the conversation grow stale instead a new theme will be decided upon.
However we could add variation by having more than two passengers talking or having subjects needing three traits and give the passengers two traits instead.

In the jam and given time, it was implemented this way on Bitsy.

Improvement Axis

Explicit more the traits of the characters in the writings to give a more explicit clue on which route is taken.

Narrative Level Design Documents

Untitled

Ludum Dare 54: Walking Simulator Narrative Game

To support that intention, I wrote dialogues to convey different feelings and goals to the players. Then placed them in the level and implemented them with Yarn Spinner.
Each color is a type of dialogue that we put in a shadow.

By using that porthole mechanic, we designed five linear levels with rising intensity of weirdness and uncanniness.
Each colored circle is numbered with the dialogues in the google sheets.
Black ones are filler meant to give tension or be used as staging elements
Since it's am ambiance game, the focus was put into the staging by carefully choosing the dialogues to put in and also play with lights and the deconstruction of the train.

How do you live like this ?

Narrative Game on Bitsy in Solo

• Play Here

Break into someone's flat and learn about the life of the robbed one.

Blueprints

Quest System using Data Table WIP

First Attempt to create a Quest System using Data Table

Here you can use "Add" to add a quest and then fill the different cases (quest name, objective, description etc) for it to appear on your screen using the blueprints below.

Sims like Interaction System

Kit Blueprint Test

I wanted to test an idea to quickly assemble a kit and change it however wanted but it's not the most optimal one. But efficient on time and can be expaned to all kind of meshes.

AI System

Basic AI without Behavior Tree

Basic AI with Behavior Tree

Basic Interaction

XP and LVL System

Scripting C# WIP

Le temps d'une photo is a narrative sandbox using systems to create emergent storytelling.
With an emotion system: Fear, Joy, Anger, Sadness. The player will be put into a small neighborhood where everyone knows each other and all have their own routines and would go through their days with different emotions.
The player will be able to capture a character's emotion, dive into their feelings then and broadcast it in the whole neighborhood to induce change in the behavior of every npc.

Here's an example of an interaction, we capture a couple in love, so there is more love in the air and other couples are forming. But some people might be stressed and sad from that atmosphere.
Thus you will have other emotions and characters to explore and influence to create your desired stories.

Goals for the prototype

My goals for the exercise was:- Convey intentions through mechanics and game design- Carry out a project from the idea to a prototype- Be more at ease on Unity

By the end, I coded some quick things to recognize emotions and to get an insight on the characters when taking a picture of them. It would be enough to do a proof of concept.
Coding a narrative system tied to the panopticon aspect would have been too complex considering the timeframe.

Paper Prototype

I also had the opportunity to pitch it to my pedagogical team as a student project along another pitch. Then to my class, it got great reviews but I decided to go with the other pitch.
But here's the slideshow I used to pitch. (It had less words during the presentation)

Le temps d'une photo

Jams, Prototypes and other experimental projects

Jams, Prototypes and other experimental projects

Love on the Floor

Conception

Design

In Game Relationship Evolution

• Excel of the speed dating questions and answers

Pitch

Kill’n Clean It is a top down shooter with a funny and light set up, we control two characters with complementary and asymmetric skills.They are tasked with cleaning a house filled with alien and filthy blobs. The nature of the task, a simple spring cleaning and its origin, an invasive extraterrestrial race are poles apart from each other. It justifies an adequate opposite armament for our heroes. However, by their antagonistic nature, they become complementary in order to reach their goal.The game stands out by its symmetrical control of the characters which are moving with the center of the screen as orbit. They can move away from the center and toward the center while being able to spin around it.The complementarity of the characters and their symmetry is creating a nervous and fast experience.Kill’n Clean It offers a nervous and fun experience in which we exploit the duality of two complementary characters.Recommended to play with Xbox Controller.

• You can check the GDD made for the jam here ( in French )

Game Design

We got a melee character in orbit with a shooter and you move them as a tandem.

Level Design

Game Design

Lava Dream

Benchmark

Interaction

I decided to break the medium apart to mess with forms and abstract and make them interact with each other by using gestures.
By using small gestures and that phenomenon of amplification and ricocheting like on water. It will be possible to reach distant areas unreachable by the silhouette only, it's even more important for people in wheelchair.
A real size paper prototype of 3 meters was made to establish the correct distance of the user and the placement of the kinect but also to project early works to see how they look.

Pitch

Game Design

Hover Drifters is a third-person racing game mixing frantic pursuit and objective capture.In order to Win the game, you have to :- Collect the package before your opponent.- If your opponent takes it before you, Charge them to take the package back.- Finish the race before the time runs out.It meant that in the level design, I had to think about areas where the players could take a risk and take cut to take over the package or even ambush and hide if the player behind has the package. It was an interesting but needed more time for iteration.

Step by step

With a team of 6 the goal of the project was to test Unreal 5 and experiment with the blueprints for a day with other novices on the engine in programmation, art and sound.

In this project, I was in charge of:- Iterative work on the 3C and our core mechanic.
- Establishing the signs and feedbacks and their priority for our game.
- Define the userflow.To ensure a smooth communication with the team, we've established a Game Design Document with my duo and I made Google Sheet to define the signs and feedbacks.

Sexy Sumo Bagarre ENJMIN

Game feel of Hurt me Plenty

Solo Projects

Art

Game Design

L'objectif en tant que bao est de ne pas se faire manger et ne pas être garni. Pour gagner le match, vous allez devoir écraser de la nourriture sur le terrain adverse afin de faire glisser votre adversaire en remplissant une jauge de glisse puis le garnir. Après l'avoir garni 3 fois, vous gagnez la partie.

Benchmark

Premier benchmark gameplay pour nourrir les réflexions de l'équipe et personnelle.

Benchmark de volleyball et football dans les jeux vidéo, leurs règles et leurs 3C.
Travail pour référencer des mouvements de Sepak Takraw, plus tard utilisé en référence pour une session de mocap avec un pratiquant d'art martiaux.

Filling Fighting étant un jeu de versus reposant sur les réflexes et des contrôles précis, il était nécessaire que le level design et la vitesse du bao et de la balle le prenne en compte.
Du milieu du terrain, le bao doit pouvoir atteindre chaque côté du terrain en 1s.
Là où la balle atterit est décidé en ayant des zones plus ou moins atteignables selon la position du smasheur et du stick directionnelle.
Pour bien estimer les distances, un script a été fait pour que le bao se dirige dans la direction désiré pendant 1s et mesure la distance parcourue. Avec cette information, le level a été construit pour prendre en compte ces metrics.

Pour créer du chaos dans ces contrôles précis, j'ai ajouté 4 aliments différents avec un taux d'apparition différent. Chaque aliment prend une forme différente une fois le sol touché afin de perturber l'adversaire.
Plus de temps auraient pu être dédié à cet aspect systemique mais des choix ont dû être fait dans la production.

Hover Drifters est un jeu à la troisième personne de course mélangeant poursuite effrené et capture d'objectifPour gagner la partie, tu dois:- Récuperer le paquet avant son adversaireSi ton adversaire prend le paquet avant toi, fonce lui dessus avec ton boost pour récuperer le paquet.- Finis la course avec le paquet avant le temps imparti.Pour le level design, il a fallu réfléchir à des zones où les joueurs peuvent prendre des risques et prendre des raccourcirs pour récupérer le paquet ou même se cacher et embusquer l'ennemi si l'adversaire derrière a le paquet. C'était une idée intéressant mais qui avait besoin d'un temps de maturation plus long.

Pitch

Kill’n Clean It est est un top down down shooter au setup drôle et léger qui nous fait contrôler deux personnages aux capacités complémentaires et asymétriques.Leur tâche commune est de nettoyer une maison remplis de blob alien et crasseux. La nature de la tâche (simple nettoyage de printemps) et sa provenance (une race extraterrestre envahissante) semblent aux antipodes l’une de l’autre, ce qui justifie un “armement” aussi opposé pour nos héros. Néanmoins, ces équipements, par leurs nature antagonique, se retrouvent complémentaires dans l’accomplissement de leur objectif commun.Le jeu se démarque par le contrôle symétrique des personnages qui se déplace avec le centre de l’écran duquel iels peuvent s’éloigner, se rapprocher et autour duquel iels peuvent tourner. La complémentarité des personnages et cette symétrie poussent donc à une expérience rapide et nerveuse.Des visuels aux feedback fort & juicy créer alors une expérience challengeante et propice à un sentiment de flow. Kill’n Clean It offre une expérience nerveuse et sympathique en exploitant la dualité de deux personnages complémentaires.Recommandé de jouer avec une manette Xbox.

Benchmark

J'ai décidé d'éclater le médium des panneaux afin de bousculer ces formes et visuels abstraits et les faire se mélanger et s’altérer entre elles par des gestes.
Par des petits gestes, et ce phénomène d’amplification et d’onde comme sur l’eau, il est possible d’atteindre des espaces éloignés inatteignables par la simple silhouette, d’autant plus lorsque l’on est en fauteuil roulant par exemple.
Un prototype papier de 3 mètres sur 3 mètres pour établir une distance entre l'utilisateur et l'écran et le placement de la kinect.

Dans Le temps d'une photo, vous êtes dans une petite ville sandbox avec plusieurs personnages vivant tous leurs vies et routines passant par toutes sortes d'emotion de la peur à l'amour à la tristesse et à la colère.À l'aide de votre caméra, capturez une emotion et partager là dans toute la vie pour induire des changements dans le comportement de chaque personnage.Par exemple, si l'émotion de l'amour est capturé, les personnages auront alors plus de chance de tomber amoureux ou de flirter et de créer des interactions autour de l'amour tandis que d'autres pourraient ressentir de la tristesse face à cette ambiance d'amour.
L'intention qui a porté le projet était de trouver d'autres façons de raconter des histoires, autre que par l'écrit. On peut parler de narration systémique en utilisant ce concept de capture d'émotion et de son partage par la photo.Mais le coeur du projet, c'était vraiment de créer des représentations d'amour et de vie et de personnes différentes pour mettre en lumière le manque de personnes de couleur et de personnes queer dans les productions actuelles.
C'est pour cela qu'il a été important pour moi de donner les rênes aux joueurs et les laissser créer leurs propres representations et histoires en prenant des photos.

À la fin, j'ai codé rapidement une feature pour reconnaître les émotions des personnages et avoir un feedback narratif lorsque l'on prend une photo.
Travailler sur un système narratif lié au panoptique serait intéressant mais trop complexe compte tenu de l'exercice.

AAA Exercise on Among US

Constraints: 13 Game Designers, 1 week and only two meeting with the full team allowed.

Here's our Game Concept Document and our Presentation

• GCD
• Presentation