Space Harvest
About the game
Space Harvest is a mobile casual game, in which the player controls an alien botanist and uses the oxygen of his suit to propel through space, during his continuous missions. His objective is to take care of the space flora completing various tasks. This game was commissioned by Bad Seed.
- It was commissioned by BadSeed.
- It was completed in one month.
- The team was of fifteen people.
- It won the "Best production" prize.
What I worked on
For this project, I was assigned to the role of Lead Designer, so the majority of my responsibilities was coordinating my department internally and between other departments. Besides, after the first drafting, I cured the documentation.
Challenges
This project started a week before the Christmas break, but the pitch with BadSeed was scheduled for the come back at the school. During the break, through discord, we had almost completed the Game Design Document in advance, to anticipate the incoming tasks.
Unfortunately, our proposal was rejected, and we had to start from scratch keeping the art style, from this point on we lost another week to get the second concept approved.
At this point, we couldn't lose other time, so against common sense and every teaching received we started the production phase before the Game Design Document was completed. This thought me different things. First of all, never start production before the GDD is completed. Then I learned to be extremely flexible in the design decisions since before being written down they had to be approved by programmers and/or artists. Another important aspect derived from the limited time we had was also working under constant pressure, initially it was a struggle, but in the end I learned to shape the stress into faster work, sacrificing sometimes the details that would have made it perfect.
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