OVERVIEW
Car Patrol : Hide & Seek Animals is a mobile video game intended for a young audience and based on observation.
For each level, the player will have to find different animals or objects, these are shown in the magnifying glass in the upper right corner of the screen. Once the player finds and touch the "target animal", the next one will appear in the magnifying glass.
Hide & Seek offers twelve different levels in various themes and universes.
Here you can see four different levels : savannah, the farm, the forest and an underwater level. Each level offers different animals in order to afford diversity for the player.
MAIN TASKS
■ Signs and Feedbacks
One of the main challenge for this game, as a designer was to make sure that the player knew which animal was the actual target. So I worked on the magnifying glass at the top right of the screen: size, colors, backgrounds added for dark shaded animals and a few animations to catch the eye of the player. I also worked on the feedbacks regarding wether or not the player had found the right animal.
■ Level Design
After we organized playtests, a few issues with the level design emerged. So I was in charge of complexifying the levels that we observed to be too simple for the players, mainly by using more depth on the concerned levels. As for the levels that we judged to be too difficult, I had to make them clearer for the player by removing some objects from the scenes, making sure that the animals stand out well, or simply replace them by a more fitting animal.
■ Debugging
The original project was developped by an external team of developpers. When we received the last version of the game we had several issues with it, including that all the colliders were offset from the gameobects. So I had to fix every collider in order for them to fit every object in every level.
■ QA testing
In the last weeks of development, one of my task was to look for potential bugs in the game (both on the iOS and Android versions) and make reports to the programmer to facilitate their work before releasing the game.
