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Pakka Pets Village, 2013-2016

Free on: App Store & Google Play

Proto Games

Role: Cofounder, Game Designer, Direction

Pakka Pets Village is a 5-star rated game with over 8 thousand reviews and 1 million installs.

 

Website:

https://www.pakkapets.com

 

Successful Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1298607829/pakka-pets

Pack Pets is a two man project created by my partner Thomas Uster (engineer) and me (designer). I was responsible for all concepts, game design, art, story, writing, mission design, story scripting, and UI/UX.

 

Game Description:

Pakka Pets - an adorable and weird pet sim adventure for iPhone.

Pakka Pets is inspired by Tamagotchi (those crazy 90s virtual pets) and Pokemon. Your Pakka Pet exists in real-time, so even when your phone is off or in your pocket, your pet is going about its daily life- eating, pooping and taking naps, and of course, missing you! Everything you do affects which pet it will evolve into, from baby to kid, teen and adult. There are 70 Pakka Pets to discover, and it takes real experimentation to discover the rarest pets.

Players raise and evolve Pakka Pets, taking them on over 100 hand-written adventures, playing mini games, and caring for them throughout the day. You can mix any 3 items together to craft and discover your own recipes for over 250 foods. Players express their style with each pet by decorating their house with over 200 decorations. The choices players make about food, training, attention and adventures determine how each pet evolves and who it becomes.

 

Pakka Pets Village Update:

In Pakka Pets Village, players can build their own unique paradise for their pets to live in, collecting every pet at once as residents in their village. As you grow your village, you’ll unlock building materials, portals to new locations & games, veggies to farm, and tools to help raise pets.

From your village, go to the big city to do over 100 quests. Each pet has totally unique stories!

- Rally some citizens to help rescue a sleepwalker who somehow ends up in bizarre locations
- Help a nervous Post man with his fear of delivering junk-mail to angry townsfolk
- Help the Pakka City Police recover a missing sandwich

Most virtual pet games are only about taking care of your pet, but in Pakka Pets Village, players create a dream world and collect all of the Pakka Pets to live in it. Inspired by Tamagotchi, adventure games, creative sandbox games, RPGs, life sims, and pet sims, Pakka Pets Village is a unique game crammed with weirdness, depth and personality. 

 

Key Features, Design & Systems:

Please see descriptions of each system in the caption below their screenshots.

Pakka Pets Village Trailer

Trailer for Nov 2016 launch of the Pakka Pets Village sequel update.

* click image above to play *

Pets & Behaviors
Pets & Behaviors

Pets exist in real time. Designed to mimic a real pet, the pet's systems takes into account how many hours of sleep they get a day, their diet, how much attention they are given. They react to their environment, become unhappy when left alone or in a messy room, and can even refuse food when made too upset.

Design a village
Design a village

Players build and design their own unique world for their pets to live in, collecting every pet at once as residents in their village. The bigger the village, the more building materials, portals to new locations & games, and tools to help raise pets the player unlocks. 

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Pakka City
Pakka City

Mission-based quest system. Complete quests to earn currency to unlock new areas of the town, where new quests and new characters are available. Content hinges on diversity of characters and interesting storytelling. Quests make use of all game systems to create diverse situations.

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Mini Games
Mini Games

Mini games and unlockable mini-areas where players can explore and farm for items and hearts, the main game currency.

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Decorating your home
Decorating your home

Design your room with hundreds of decorations, wallpapers, flooring, windows, doors, etc.

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Alchemy
Alchemy

Crafting system that allows you to combine any three items in the game (even if it's not food). The results and their probabilities are dynamically calculated using a tag system and power levels that feel natural from the ingredients. There are hundreds of items in the game. The discovery of new items adds to the collection mechanics.

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Shop
Shop

Rotating store selection between hundreds of items (food, decorations, pet care/misc). The stock is constantly rotating every few hours, adding a fun time pressure to any awesome finds and making it extremely rare to ever see the same item twice. Every purchase lowers the timer unit the next re-stocking.

Choose An Egg
Choose An Egg

Each egg contains an entire evolution tree of pets. Each egg has tremendous replay value, as your care will make your pet evolve differently through each stage of its life (baby, kid, teen, adult).

Refer a Friend
Refer a Friend

Refer friends through Facebook to get in-game rewards.

 

 

 

Images below:

Sketches and designs for some of the mission-based/RPG style unlockable areas of the game.

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Design iterations of the Plaza in the Pakka Town
Design iterations of the Plaza in the Pakka Town
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Realm of the Mad God, 2011-2013

On Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/200210/

Wild Shadow Studios acquired by Kabam

Role: Game Designer + Producer

 

Game Description:

ROTMG is the first Co-op MMO bullet hell shooter. Team up with dozens of players, explore and participate in massive battles.

 

Game Design:

New combat system designs, new gameplay features, monetization, new class designs, secret bosses and areas, new item design, supervised UI and UX for all new features.

 

Combat / Feature Design:

Class-based combat, designed for massive cooperative battles with up to 80 players. Each boss, level and feature is designed to help augment the cooperative nature and give the players tools to use in combat to support each other's play.

Each player is also able to raise creatures as support characters, breed them to develop and exchange skills, and level up their abilities. These support characters can be customized by cross-breeding abilities to create dozens of unique battle behaviors.

 

Dungeon / Level Design:

Designed dungeon mechanics, bosses, combat, scripted all enemies, scripted dungeon layout algorithms and some art.

Almost all of the content in the game was made or supervised by me (very little content has been added since I left in 2013). Because of this, I’ll be picking a few examples to mention below rather than go over everything I did.

 

Realm of the Mad God Wiki:

https://www.realmeye.com/wiki/realm-of-the-mad-god

You can read in-depth details of the game design on the Wiki, including descriptions of bosses, enemies, strategies, and loot. 

These examples are only a few of the levels & bosses I built:

Oryx - Final boss

Oryx's Castle -  Final boss level

Manor of the Immortals - dungeon & boss

Davy Jones's Locker - dungeon

Davy Jones's Locker - boss

Candyland Hunting Ground - dungeon

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Realm of the Mad God - Combat

(Apologies, the demo mode watermark is due to Kabam's software)  Created all content shown in the video (level design, combat design, bosses, etc.)

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Davy Jones's Locker Dungeon
Davy Jones's Locker Dungeon

procedurally generated from rules of my design

(Selected Example Level) Candyland Hunting Ground
(Selected Example Level) Candyland Hunting Ground

A secret world in the game. Here you travel around battling mythical candy-creatures. After hunting enough of the mobs, crazy and strong boss monsters will spawn to defend their world.

Realm of the Mad God - Pets & Arena

(Apologies, the demo mode watermark is due to Kabam's software) Designed pet system based on BCG mechanics. Worked on Arena design.

Manor of the Immortals
Manor of the Immortals

examples of map, procedurally generated by rules of my design

Spiral Knights, 2011

On Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/99900/

Three Rings Design, SEGA

Role: Level Designer

 

Game Description:

Co-op online role-playing game created by Three Rings Design and published by Sega. Stranded on an alien world, you must explore the ever-changing Clockworks beneath its surface.

 

Candlestick Keep, series of levels

Designed the entire launching dungeon series, enemy encounters, puzzles, dungeon layout rules. This included about 80 battle/puzzle and miscellaneous rooms, as well as the assembly rules telling the game how to dynamically build dungeons out of them. I also was responsible for the aesthetic design of the levels.

This content was designed to be played by 1-4 players cooperatively.

“These haunted grounds are all that remains of the once prosperous Owlite Academy. Though now overtaken by Spookats and other undead horrors, Knights will find Owlite ward candles scattered about the Keep that will save them from what lurks in the dark." – Spiral Knights Wiki

In addition to general puzzle and combat, Candlestick Keep was home of the Spookats- a unique, invisible enemy that had to be kept at bay by staying in the lighted areas of the level, lighting candles, or carrying light orbs.

Wiki Page: http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Candlestick_Keep

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Candlestick Keep Gameplay

This is a user-uploaded video. I do not personally know the user.

Other Projects

All of the titles listed below are solo projects. All art, design, engineering, etc were done by me. 

 

Animal Parade Forever - 2014

Free mobile game, App Store

Animal Parade Forever is a cute animal happiness toy for mobile.

Music: Niv Bavarsky

 

Flappy Dragon Destiny - 2014

Free mobile game, App Store, Google Play, Web

Made in a 2 day game jam. Made for Flappy Jam, in support of the creator of Flappy Bird.

Music: Niv Bavarsky

 

RGB Warped - 2013

Free mobile arcade game, App Store, Google Play

RGB Warped sends you to an insane psychedelic world based on classic 80's arcade games. In this bizarre adventure, you'll be dodging giant centipedes, escaping from rogue playing cards, avoiding meteors, and running from giant floating heads.

Music: Niv Bavarsky + Cam Floyd, TEEEL and M.O.O.N

 

TransDimensional - 2010

Web / Browser - http://snackycactus.itch.io/transdimensional

A satirical story-based platformer. Assume the role of a service robot who works for a Pan-Dimensional travel agency. This Earthbound-inspired game is designed to make you smile.

Music: Niv Bavarsky

RGB Warped Trailer

App Store Link  -  Google Play Link

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Animal Parade Forever - Mobile Toy
Animal Parade Forever - Mobile Toy

2014 free mobile toy.

App Store Link

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Flappy Dragon Destiny
Flappy Dragon Destiny

2014 free mobile game built in 2 days for the Flappy Jam

App Store Link - Google Play Link - Web Link

TransDimensional
TransDimensional

2010 web / browser game

Play Here

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