Project Type: MFA Student Game Studio Project
Contribution: Individual Contributor: Level Design, Graphic Design, Game Trailer
Outcome: Showcased at PAX East 2024
Seek Revenge from a Broken System
Street Rider is an arcade combat racing game designed around the classic PlayStation 1 art style. Fight your way with your vehicle through thugs as they attempt to destroy you and claim your revenge from their violence.
Challenges:
-Following directions given by Studio lead as an individual contributor
-Designing a level in a racing game format
-Researching PlayStation 1 graphics and aesthetic
-Wearing different hats such as: making game trailer, digital designs, and textures
-Capturing Studio lead's vision through multiple drafts and communication
What I Learned:
-Presenting multiple varying drafts promotes alternate ideas and discussion
-Optimal game asset resource management and organization with a team
-The unique aspects of PlayStation 1 games
-Texture sizes, pixels, and the different ways they can be wrapped around objects
-Developed stronger greyboxing skills for level designs
Final Level Design, End of Studio
Side View of Final Level Design
Final Level Design, Showcasing Cleaned Up Faces per Studio Lead Instruction
Player Start View of Final Level Design
Learning to Work in Blender! Making the Race Track (Based off Studio Lead's Design)
First Greybox Layout, Week 2 of Studio
Final Greybox Level Design, Week 6 of Studio
Street Rider at Clark University BSDT Booth During PAX East 2024
Digital Design: Billboard #1 for Other Game Level
Digital Design: Billboard #2 for Other Game Level
Digital Design: Billboard #3 for Other Game Level
Digital Design: Billboard #4 for Other Game Level
Digital Design: Billboard #5 for Other Game Level
Digital Design: Billboard #6 for Other Game Level
Street Rider, PAX East 2024 Trailer (Constructed and Edited by Lauren Gallagher)