Starweave
Lead Engineer
Starweave is a single-player narrative game that utilized squad rpg and novel command-refusal mechanics to tell an allegorical story about oppressive roles. Players will experience empathy and understand the nuances behind a cast of hurting teenagers.
Made in Unity.
Starweave is currently in development.
Project Details
- Duration: March 2022 - Present
- Genre: Tactics, RPG, Narrative
- Platform: PC/Mac
- Game Engine: Unity
- My Role(s): Lead Engineer
- Team Size: 50+
Contributions
- Running weekly engineering meetings and creating and assigning tasks on ClickUp to ensure that we meet milestones and stay on schedule.
- Programming a text parser for writers to be able to write scripts in a spreadsheet and easily convert it to executable .yarn files in Unity.
- Working closely with each engineer to implement critical systems.
- Writing technical/creative specifications that clearly states deliverables.
- Writing detailed documentation and guides for how to use tools that engineering developed for other teams.
- Communicating with other teams to understand their technical needs.
- Working closely with the UX team to test and iterate on features with a consideration to user experience.
- Making weekly builds and writing detailed patch notes.
- Writing Usability notes for the Usability team to run playtests and get targeted feedback.