Iron Harvest

Project Information

ABOUT:

Iron Harvest is a dieselpunk-style real-time strategy game, set in Jakub Różalski’s “World of 1920+”. It is heavily inspired by Company of Heroes and scheduled to be released in September 2020.

TIME ON THE PROJECT: 4 months (2018)

STUDIO: King Art Games

TEAM SIZE: 33

TECHNOLOGY: Unity

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Researching and presenting proposed features

- Creating concepts and proposals for new features

- Documenting design decisions in the in-house wiki

Work Process

Before approaching a new problem, I break it down into smaller chunks. Afterwards, I discuss my ideas with my colleagues to get feedback for further iteration.

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Concepts and Documentation

To develop concepts and then present them to my team, I use flowcharts and dependency-diagrams.

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Click Audio Feedback

This flowchart explains what and when audio feedback should be played when clicking a unit.

Audio Cue Interaction

This chart proposes a way of how different categories of audio cues would interact with each other.

Unit Shout Design

The chart suggest a potential way of how the sound design of unit shouts can work.

Concept Mock-ups

I use Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, and Google Tables to create visual mock-ups to better convey my ideas.

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Achievement Mock-up

The mockup illustrates how skilled play can be acknowledged, without cluttering the UI. Acknowledgements for good macro play would be displayed in a large red font, as they don’t occur often. Acknowledgements of good micro play and individual unit actions would be displayed smaller and in gray.

Health Bar Mock-up

The mockup proposes how the health bar of an infantry squad could convey to the player how many units they have remaining, as well as what the overall health of that squad is.

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