Game Design|Programming|Audio
Game Design|Programming|Audio
Reboot is a 3D platformer roller skating game with a heavy focus on speed.
Intent
Reboot is a 3D platformer roller skating game with a
heavy focus on speed. The goal of the game is to escape the large bowl shaped level by picking up enough speed to exit the bowl and flying over the edge. The player is also given a score to help evaluate their performance. The higher speed the player escapes the bowl with and the less time it takes them to do so, the higher their score is.
The original concept for this game had the player
character as the soul of a broken CRT. The play space of the game would be limbo for old electronics. The player character's motivation was to escape this limbo and get back to earth. Most of this was scrapped as we realized it was out of scope.
Audio direction
We knew early on that the themes and visuals would
be heavily inspired by home/consumer electronics made before the 2000's. When I was writing music for the game I wanted it to use synth that reflected early analogue synths. I wanted the music to show that it was made digitally. I made sure samples sounded manipulated and edited but also that they still felt natural. I used EQs and bit crushing to give tracks the sound of old speakers and record dust.
Many of the sound effects were recorded in my dorm
room. Most of them came from me clicking and clacking old and usually broken audio equipment from the college's Sonic Arts Division. I would take the samples, usually lower their base and increase their high ends with an EQ to make them crunchy. Then I'd add a synth in to make them feel more fun. Example below:
Background
Reboot is a game developed over 1 semester in the second half of junior year (2019). For the first part of the semester the game was developed with a team of 4. In the second half of the semester we on-boarded new team members for a total team size of 11.
Tools Used
- Unity 3D
- Ableton Live Lite 9
- Logic
- Maya
- Adobe Photo Shop
- Adobe Illustrator
Team
ORIGINAL TEAM
- Josh Forchheimer
- Audio Designer
- Music
- Systems Designer
- Programmer
- Tech Artist
- Art Lead
- Lead Programmer
- Dakota Williams
- Systems Designer
- Level Designer
On-Boarded TEAM
- Jacob Biederman
- Gameplay Programmer
- Graphics Programmer
- Producer
- Jaymee Fulcher
- Producer
- Harry Geotz
- Level Designer
- UI Designer
- Environment artist
- Ben Strong
- Gameplay Programmer