BRAVE FRONTIER
Company: gumi Asia Pte. Ltd. Platform: Android/iOS Duration: 16 Weeks
DESCRIPTION
Brave Frontier is a mobile role-playing game that highly emphasizes on collecting various characters to form a team to clear the vast amount of contents included such as the story mode, PVP arena and event missions.
ROLES
Game Design · Character Design
GAME DESIGN INTERN
Tasked with creating the design specifications, implementation of data and play-testing of multiple units that are implemented into the live product.
Responsibilities
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Character design specifications
Designing character's skill set based on specified character's role in the team
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Character sound effect design
Using a limited pool of sound clips to design battle sound effects for the characters
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Data entry
Input character data using various programs such as Microsoft Excel into the game
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Play-testing
Testing out the completed character for any errors and rectify accordingly
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Character news for social media
Involved in writing the character's specifications into news format for public release
CHARACTER SPECIFICATIONS DESIGNED BY ME
CHALLENGES
Problem
Early in the internship I had a lot of trouble familiarizing myself with all the data sets provided. Careless mistakes were made in both data entry and writing the character's news.
Solution
I became more competent in inputting the data over the next few weeks which resulted in the significant decline of errors. I had also created an automated text generator for myself using Microsoft Excel to help me with creating character news. Which directly translates the skill identification number into text format that is used for writing the character's news.
FINAL THOUGHTS
I was really lucky to be interning when the Tokyo Ghoul collaboration was still in its infancy stage. I got the opportunity to give my personal inputs regarding the design direction for the character sets in terms of how the character specifications of Brave Frontier can mirror that of the character skills in Tokyo Ghoul. As an Anime fan myself I was super pumped and delighted when my design inputs were implemented.
It was also exciting to see how the player base reacted towards the characters which I had designed. I was really elated that they were willing to spend the time and effort, obtaining and enhancing them. That fills me with an overwhelming feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction. I could not stop grinning.
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