Company: Yobo
Position: Level Designer/Game Designer
Secondary Position: Marketing
Timeframe: May 2023 - July 2023
Timeframe: May 2023 - July 2023
Team Size: 7
Description: Oust is a Multiplayer, King of the Hill game about holding onto the crown as long as possible.
Biggest Inspiration: Valhalla
Engine: Unity
Steam Page for the Game, Unfortunately, the game is no longer accessible or playable as the servers have been taken offline, and in-game screenshots are no longer available to get. However, all of the design work is still intact.
Level Designer Jobs
- Grey boxing
- Outlining
- Explanations on Design Decisions
Example of an explanation of what makes a village in-game
Design Drawing for the Overworld Overview
Game Designer Jobs
- Combat System Design
- Come Up with Spells
- Explanations on why
A small overview of the combat system
A close-up, in-depth look at the offense spreadsheet for the combat system.
Listing what potions and spells we wanted for the game
Marketing Jobs
- Create the Discord
- Post to Reddit
- Make GIFs for posts
- Pictures for the Steam Page
Posting on Reddit to drum up interest and wishlists.
Creating and Moderating a Discord Server
What did I learn from this internship
- Work on a game for a company instead of just myself or for a class
- Work with a team at said company
- Explain my level design gray-box concepts to a direct superior
- Create and work on game balancing in systems design
- Market a game on social media
- Build a community on Discord