Scare-Crow is a humorous 3rd person stealth/planning game where you play as a crow who scares squirrels away from bird feeders.
This game was created in a year (May 2024-May 2025) with a team of 25+ USC Games students as a part of our Advanced Games Project (AGP) class - our major capstone.
Roles: Lead Designer, Programmer
Tools: Unity, Behavior Designer
As the Lead Designer and Programmer, I...
Communicated design choices to all other disciplines in 2x week meetings.
Led a design team of 3 to discuss game mechanics and flow, assign tasks per sprint, and evaluate design goals.
Designed, organized, wrote spec sheets for, and prototyped flight mechanics, scaring squirrels, and hiding in environment.
Focused on designing and implementing 3 different kinds of traps across 5 levels.
Constructed and gave feedback on level design for 2 phases with 5-7 levels; evaluate and integrate iterations.
Created a system to interface with Behavior Designer to register different traps that inherited from a base trap class.
Traps_Spec_Sheet.pdfDocumentation was essential for communicating the Design Team's decisions and recording progress. Along with approving and giving feedback to my other designers, I also wrote spec sheets for serveral mechanics including:
Traps to trick and scare squirrels
Player mechanics: sneaking/hiding, flight
To give artists and animators a better idea about the intended behavior of the traps, I created mini storyboards for reference.
