Bloobo

​---Role(s) and responsibilities---

Narrative Designer

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• Designing the overarching narrative of the game

• Writing for the character of Aandro (AI narrator)

• Crafting Aandro and Rayne’s origin story

• Writing for the Player’s onboarding sequence

• Writing dialogue, barks, cutscene scripts and worldbuilding

• Maintaining and contributing to the Bloobo Encyclopeadia

• Using Dialogue Manager in Unity to implement narrative

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Graphic Designer

• Modifying a font family to suit the game

 

UI Developer

• Creating the credits scene in Unity

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--- Team Goals ---

• Develop a captivating narrative that engages players.

• Maintaining a consistent narrative style and voice, focusing on character development for Aandro.

• Design and implement a player-friendly onboarding sequence that effectively introduces the game's mechanics and narrative.

• Craft diverse and engaging dialogue, barks, and cutscene scripts to add depth to the narrative and characters.

• A credits scene that is cathartic and gives the player a quick glimpse into the aftereffects of the game events.

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--- Personal Goals ---

• Enhance Narrative Design Skills catering to a mobile game.

• Craft Engaging Character Dialogue from the perspective of a newborn AI and an egotistic Company owner.

• Be part of a writer's room to collaboratively create the narrative

• Learn and use Dialogue Manager in Unity.

• Explore UI development through the credits scene and create a visual storytelling experience with a combination of AI-generated images.

• Actively participate in team and cross-disciplinary discussions.

• Effectively manage time to meet deadlines while working on multiple projects and a full-time job.

• Use Trello, Zoom and Google Workspace tools for effective communication, task tracking and live remote collaboration.

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--- Challenges and Learnings ---

• Creating a narrative that doesn’t restrict players from understanding the game mechanics if they skip dialogues -> making the tools more intuitive

• Ensuring a consistent narrative voice when collaborating with a diverse writers' room -> brainstorming ideas to allow for variety and creativity in one session, before fine-tuning the dialogue content to the character’s voice.

• Designing an effective onboarding sequence that is both informative and engaging without overwhelming players or seeming out of place from the game-setting

• Build the game world from Aandro and John Tube’s standpoint majorly through dialogue - the player never gets to interact with other workers, yet should feel like they have relatable co-workers -> Through Aandro’s point of view, occasionally describe ongoing activities in the workspace like office gossip, someone being fired, bringing a cat to work.

• As a mobile game where the majority player base skips dialogue if they are longer than one line, I had to upskill on rephrasing and optimising dialogue to be short yet clear.

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