Game Designer with Casden: Banque Populaire

My Role :

My role in this professional project was that of Game Designer, Project Coordinator and Sound Designer. I designed the mechanics and documented them in a comprehensive document. I balanced out all the different parameters of the game. A lot of balancing was done since it's a city management game. I coordinated all the different teams and our client throughout the production of the project. I designed all sound interactions and mechanics, and implemented them into Unity.

 

Description :

This Serious Game was made for the bank called "Casden : banque populaire". It's educational goal is to teach middle school students how the Public Service works in France. This project was made with a small team of students and professionals on a time period of 1 year. My role in this project was that of a Game Designer, however I also was the main reference of communication between the client and my team, and I also did all the Sound Design.

Territoriaux: Agents très spéciaux is a city management game where the player controls a "General Director of Service" who mobilises his agents to fix issues that pop up in the commune. Using his agents, the player will be able to develop projects and change the appearance of his commune to his liking. The main objective of the game is to show how much the public service in France impacts the development of a Commune and how many different sectors they work in.

 

Recap :

Platform : Windows 10, Android

Genre : 3D City Management Serious Game

Software : Unity

Team : 12 members with different roles

Time to develop : 1 year

Game Design

A simple mechanic

The main mechanic of this game consists on assigning agents to tasks that appear in the game space. To achieve this, the player must drag the agent and drop him onto the task. The player possesses 6 different types of agents : Security, Health, Cultural, Construction, Education and Sport Agents. The main challenge of this mechanic is identifying the correct agent to place onto the task. Each task requires a specific agent to be completed, indicated by the shape of the icon below it. This type of challenge is very similar to that of the children's game where one must fit shapes into the correct shaped hole.

Narrative Gameplay

To add to the engagement of our players, we decided to have a story push the player to complete the different levels. The story is communicated through classic dialogue  filled cutscenes, but also in-game events. These events would start with some dialogue explaining the project a character wants to conduct in the game space and then the player can chose the strategy on how this event will be developed. This choice then spawns tasks in the game space that the player must complete in order to validate the event.