https://itch.io/embed/960579?linkback=true

About the game

Discourse started as an I+D project, in which I tried to master Unity’ plugin Playmaker as a designer tool.

After some time, it turned into a portfolio’ demo:

*You play as a tormented writer who used some people’ misery to become succesful, leading to several suspicious suicides involving political and religious powers.

Ten years later, a witness shows up to offer new information -which [the writer] percieves as an opportunity to redemption...*

What I did in the game

• I designed the narrative and the overall [game / level] design.
• I structured the main story and wrote the initial demo story.
• I prototyped a horizontal slice showing the game from start to finish.
• I did the programming, minimising the dependency on Playmaker.
• I did a mainframe to migrate the story from Excel to Unity via CSV parsing.

What I have learned from working on this project

• Unity’ guts:
  • How to code in C#, but just a little.
  • How to achieve acceptable lighting with URP.
  • How to deal with the post-processing stack and volumes.
• How to manage Google Sheets’ macros.
• How to modelate 3D low-mid poly in Blender.
• How to make compelling textures in Photoshop.