Roark’s Attack on Titan Fan Game
RAoT is an online, third-person PVP game inspired from the popular anime of the same name. It features 14 playable characters, 3 unique weapon classes, and 10 game modes and supports up to 32 players and 4 teams.
Main Role(s): Gameplay Designer & QA Tester
Contributive Role(s): Community Management
The game is currently playable on itch.io: https://roarkdev.itch.io/raot
Gameplay Balance & Design
My main responsibilities concerning design were centered in aiding to establish proper identities for each weapon, emphasizing the strengths and exposing the presumed weaknesses of each weapon whilst allowing player’s to express themselves and their unique playstyles developed over the course of the game’s lifespan. Two goals were meant to be achieved through this work
1) Helping the game to stay faithful to the game’s inspiration by maintaining true to the show’s combat pacing
2) Aid new player retention through easing the fall-off of new sword players as they improved (these players accounted for 70-80% of all newer players).
Emphasizing the strengths and weaknesses of weapons meant compensating for the omni-directional, quick-paced movement by allowing the weapons to express themselves via reactibility or predictability in their offensive capabilities relative to their risk-reward (gauging effective range, utilizing universal mechanics, etc.)
