Project Verdurino
3D platformer about a radish with the power to transform into other vegetables and a desire to save the world.
What I worked on
Game Design
- Game concept
- Main character movements and active skills
- Platforming, obstacle and interactable objects
- UI/UX
- Sound related choices
Art
- Concept art (character and environment)
- Modelling and texturing (very limited)
- Rigging and animation (main character and cinematics)
- Materials and particles
- Cinematics
Programming
- Main character gameplay
- Platforming, obstacles and interactable objects
- Tutorial
- UI
- Audio implementations
Role
- Coordinating team
- Directing artists
- Communication with the sound designer
- Key person regarding anything technical about the engine or the art
Genre: 3D platformer, Action
Main target audience: 7y-12y, console
Secondary target audience: >12y, console and PC
How it started
Verdurino started as a three minute pitch for the final project of the three-year Game Design course in SAE Milan. The project would be developed from November 2021 to October 2022 attending the last year classes, with more freedom to focus on the project in the last two months.
Our objective as a team of three was to make a game that felt refined and showed our skills while keeping it manageable with our limited resources. Because of this we choose to make a game for a younger audience that would require less complex features to develop in unreal. It would also benefit the two artists that joined us later with it’s cartoony style, allowing for more material to be developed.