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Speedrunner / Competitive Racer | PC | 2024 | UE5

A hardcore competitive bipedal arcade racer, where fame is measured only by your clone's ability to survive grazing deadly hazards at neck-breaking speed.

Contributions

Concept Incubator Team (Mechanic Tests)

Building from mid-development Hood: Outlaw assets in 2019, I lead a prototyping trio in building a series of tuneable gameplay mechanics to explore future projects for the studio, and working directly with studio directors to create and pitch decks from this kit externally.

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Collectively packaged as a "survival knock-out gauntlet of rotating action game modes" (coincidentally just before Fall Guys announced!), the replication-ready mechanics prototyped included - but not limited to - the following;

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  • Locomotion System (e.g., Wall Running, Grinding)

  • PvP and PvE Combat (e.g., Range Weapons, modular limb-based health+damage kit, Ally body retrieval and team revival, raid-style Boss Fight finale)

  • Rougelike Loadout and Progression (e.g., gear-tied Abilities, loot drop charts, online ranking)​​

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Additionally, to collect regular playtest feedback, I distributed UGS builds, Steam branches, and managed game servers through Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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​The explorations of this kit and market research formed the foundations of multiple team projects across the studio, one of which become Deathsprint 66: focusing on the learnings from our online locomotion tests.

Racing Abilities Support

Supporting Deathsprint 66 team at varying points throughout dev, I would work alongside junior and intermediate staff to aid with their feature proposals through either design doc or blueprint guidance. Features such as:

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  • Various arcade/kart racer weapon pickups (e.g., homing projectiles, movement buffs)

  • Nitro / Boost systems (e.g., resource management and balancing)

  • Alternative locomotion and risk-reward input skill checks (e.g., charge jumps, air tricks, tech-landing, ...)

Additionally, I provided support to the 3Cs team with designs for finetuning the movement system, and aiding the Progression team with recommended micro/macro loop and economy documentation.

LD Tools

I used visual scripting to make various dev tools and editor widgets, reducing track dev time and making the process more accessible. Examples of dev tools added:

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  • Spline Tools (e.g., path-based pickups, rail type picker, common spline transform shortcuts, …)

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  • Tile-based Track Maker

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  • Character launch path simulator

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