The moon is made of Cheese! A group of mice are frantically trying to build a rocket. They are lead by a great scientist mouse to lead them to the Moon. Its the early 1960's and the space race is on. Everyone is trying to reach to the moon especially these mice who are outside NASA trying to get get to the moon before those greedy humans! But before that, they have to get the parts of their rocket from NASA in the still of night and build their rocket. 

 

I joined the team as a systems designer and game designer. At first, my primary role was communication. I had to communicate the ideas given by the design team to the programmers, artist and sound designer. For this, I had to benchmark and flesh-out the existing game concept. As part of this, I detailed all the game mechanics: Jump, Throw, Movement, Pick-up, Stacking etc. and define its exact parameters and working. As part of the team, I also devised the Score and Hint System. Later, I helped the level designer come up with feasible ideas for the level, which he later implemented in the level. Further, given my technical background, I helped the programmers by giving them references, scripts and pseudo-code on how to implement game features like stacking. My final task was to help the artist make filler assets. 

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Score System:

I had two main intentions for the scoring system -

1. Difficulty Adjustment - The score acts as a motivator for the players to perform better. Getting a mediocre score is easy, however, if the player challenges themselves and performs difficult challenges, they get rewarded better. For example: In the game, the AI gets triggered when the player makes a loud sound. The player gets a bonus score if they complete the level without triggering the AI.

2. Replayability - We studied behaviour in kids and noticed that kids care a lot about the number score at the end of game screens. As a result, we discovered that by giving them a number score we can encourage them to play the game multiple times.