UNTIL YOU FALL

Role: Design Director

Until You Fall is a VR-exclusive melee action game that uses light matching and rhythm elements​ to keep the gameplay fast and frenetic. The goal of the project was to develop a highly replayable experience with good game-feel that had the capacity to keep the pace of combat faster and more challenging than more simulation based attempts.

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Contributions:

• Worked with the senior Jedi Challenges team to pitch the concept of a VR-specific game that took its DNA from Jedi Challenges, following its successful release.

• Designed core combat systems & action economy to create a melee game that could take advantage of VR's freedom of arm movement while still providing accessible, fast paced gameplay.

• Helped to develop a unified movement system to enable new & veteran VR players to experience the same game.

• Designed, prototyped, and implemented a custom system for creating "weapon heft"- allowing the team to make weapons that felt believable and unique, without many of the issues that come from spring-based rigs.

• Designed & Developed AI for all enemies using Behavior Trees.

• Collaborated with programming leads to create an "instanced variable" system to plug into the Behavior tree system- enabling the team to rapidly assemble finished AI at roughly 3 Weeks per enemy.

• Oversaw development of weapons, supers, and information design for weapon Traits & powerups.

• Managed game balance across all levels of difficulty.

• Interacted with the game's community to build discourse and source feedback about the current state of the game in Early Access.