VR Multiplayer Mini Golf Prototype | Game Designer

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Team of 2

Game designer -- Nancy Lin

Technical director -- Sai Ruthvik Thandayam

Design Progress

This is a game jam project , the theme of the game jam to solve isolation and health issue that occur during Covid. Based on this theme, mini golf will be a perfect game/ sports for families and friends to get together not only play the game but also reconnect with each other. This game not only achieve social needs and physical health needs.

To make the interaction more interesting, player can create their own levels and challenge each other.

VR Mini-Golf

Game modes

• Normal game mode -- Players challenge the level we designed.

• Customize mode -- Players can create their own level and challenge other players. The room host can decide whether or not the other guest player can create the puzzle or not.

Customize level prototype

In this video you will see the first step of creating the level builder, the cube will identify if it is able to be set down as a component based on collision detection.

Red mean invalid placement

Blue means available.

Add on model

​Add on Network by Sai Ruthvik Thandayam

The project is not fully complete but the core mechanic has been prototype out during the game jam time limit. The player can play against each other in the normal game mode and be able to build the mini golf course.

Dominion (mod) | Game Design

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Group Member:

Yan Gu, Zijie Zhang, Eunice Lim, Hsi(Nancy) Lin

Modification progress:

First, we play the original Dominion board game. And all our group member thinks the game takes too much time, and lack of player interactive.

Modification Goal:

1. Accelerate the game pace.

2. Increase the game interactions between players

Original Dominion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jNGpgdMums

Modified Dominion

***Damage and Revival:

Damage

Resolve damage from action cards with each player in a clockwise direction.

If a player gets attacked, they roll the dice once, and the number on the dice is the damage that the player suffers.

Revival

If a player has a revival card when they die from damage, they can trash the revive card immediately to revive with 1 hp.

Revived players are invulnerable until their turn.

Other players can revive them to prevent the attacker from winning.

Players must be alive to revive other players.

Resolve any disputes in a clockwise direction (eg. multiple revives).

Looting

If a player chooses to revive another fallen player, they get to loot 1 random card from the fallen player’s current hand.

The reviver may choose to add the card to discard pile or trash it.

Additional Rules

Goal: the player kills another player wins the game.

Players can revive other players.

Reviver loot 1 random card from the reviver’s hand. Trash or keep.

Decrease starting treasure for each player: x5 coppers, x2 silver, x3 revives

Draw 3 cards from the hidden market at the beginning, then the next player only needs to draw 1 card to put in the position the card be purchased by the previous player.