Dancing Plague Game Design
Overview:
On Dancing Plague, I was the team Designer/ 2D Artist/ Video Editor and Concept Artist. My duties included:
+Scripting gameplay sequences such as initial cutscene, enemies encounters placement, environment puzzles, etc.
+Resource and upgrade placement, as well as Inventory system creation.
+Initial stages of dialogue.
+Creating level layouts (Concept Art)
+Writing the overall game story and ways to provide story during the gameplay.
+Trailer creation/editing.
+Being the owner/vision holder and producer for levels.
+Creating level layouts (2D map creation, placement of every key items on the map to ensure no backtracking).
+Collaboration with another artist to create all the 2D assets in the game (U.I, 2D animations, enemies and characters designs, 2D cutscenes and intro)
+Game Document Design creator.
+A lot more!
Platform: Windows
Published: Jan 31 , 2021
Duration: 4 months
Team size: 4
Role: 2D Artist - Game Designer - Video editor - Concept Artist
Ranking: 1 out of 15
Genre: Survival - Horror - Puzzle
The brief of this project was to create a video game in a team of 4 people until the end of the semester of my Digital Games Master's degree.
Dancing Plague is based on historical real facts with a mix of creepy, unrelenting madness that engages in a topic that infuses what happened in 1518 with the creation of fictional reasoning that creates in our minds to explain what happened. Why did people die while dancing? Our lack of understanding tries to find a reason for it. This game will use that fear and unease to make the player question if dancing is truly happy or if it is a possessed act that needs to be exorcised.
Please be sure to play it and learn more about it in: https://rafazcruz.itch.io/dancing-plague
Gameplay Screenshots
