ChessFight
ChessFight is a systemic concept game combining chess and a fighting game.
My job
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Lead Game Designer
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Management of the design team
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Production of Game Design documents
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System Designer
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Design of game systems
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On this project, I was responsible for designing the pitch, creating the team, managing the pole design and the System Design of the game.
Context
Year : 2023
Project type : Concept
Team : 3 Game Designer, 3 Game Programmer
Role : Lead Game Designer / System Designer
Time limit : 3 months
Constraints :
No Game Artists
Chess and fight
Chessfight is a conceptual game mixing chess with a fighter.
Each time a player takes a piece from the chess game a fight, influenced by the placement of the different pieces on the board, begins and the loser loses his piece.
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The principle of the game changes the basic rules of the game of chess. The player must use his pawns to best prepare for his battles, and thus remove his opponent's pieces in order to take his king.
The link between two worlds
The mix between the chess game and the fighting game seemed quite natural given the very strategic aspect of the two types of game. They make it possible to establish a synergy between a phase of slow reflection to set up the fight best possible and an intense mechanical phase to make the fight.
What this project has taught me
Prototype instead of imagine
Ce projet n'a pas fonctionné autant que ce que j’espérais, la faute à une équipe et une méthodologie défaillante. j'ai voulu tout imaginer avant de tester, ce qui à empêché de voir des problèmes de design basiques. Maintenant je le sais, il faut prototyper et tester chaque système encore et encore
Leading is not easy
It was a first for me to lead a team, I found myself delegating too much and giving my team freedom without making enough decisions. It cost us a lot of time and prevented the project from arriving at a prototype of sufficient quality.
The system is what get me
C'est la première fois que je travaillais sur un projet aussi systémique et c'est vraiment à ce moment que je me sis rendu compte que c'est ce qui m’intéressait le plus.