Videogame designer
Racing Royale
Spring/Summer 2022 - Gameplay Designer / VFX Artist / QA Tester
Racing Royale is a 12-week multiplayer action racing game developed at the request of London-based developer Hutch as part of the Abertay University post-graduate course.
For this game, I worked as both a gameplay designer and QA Tester, working on tuning down the overall feel of playing and the experience (while also doing periodic playtesting sessions and obtaining data) as well as a VFX artist to help the art team and add more flare to our project.
Racing Royale is a "Battle Royale" inspired take on action and arcade racing games, where players have to overturn each other while avoiding obstacles, going through checkpoints and using power-ups.
As a multiplayer game, the objective of every player is to race through the finish line and be as fast as possible as not to be eliminated by the dreaded monster behind you.
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For this project, I worked as both a gameplay designer and QA Tester alongside being responsible of the game's VFX. My main goal for this project was to be as resourceful and helpful as possible to our team in multiple manners.
"I worked with Juan while mentoring on Abertay University's 'MProf' Masters degree in game development. Juan and his team were great to work with. He was always engaged, professional and responsive to feedback and comments. It was an impressive team output for a 12 week project, helped by some significant play-testing insights that were driven by Juan."
- Jonathan Alpine, Chief Creative Officer at Hutch.