Escape Room

ROLE

Game Designer

Employeer

George Brown College Center of Construction and Engineering

DESCRIPTION

I was responsible for creating a virtual game-inspired activity for secondary students to learn and explore different trades. I was given creative liberties to make decisions regarding the game creation, in consultation with the Program Coordinator. The deadline was a full month and the team was just me and a fellow Game Designer. The simple game we created with the resources and time we had is still great for its goal and target audience.

You can play the game with the link below.

http://cellsatwar.com/CCET/

YEAR

2022

Responsibilities

Designed educational videogames to raise awareness of careers in construction and engineering for students in grades 7-9
Designed, programmed and tested games prototypes with Construct 3
Designed the game’s core pillars, gameplay loop and mechanics
Tasked with creating a GDD Document of a more advanced version that could go into production

GDD

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Escape Room Game Demo

While designing the carpentry minigame, we visited the carpentry lab at George Brown. We talked to professors, and they discussed the importance of placement and order in carpentry.

Which inspired my fellow designer and me to make a simple drag-and-drop game. Several pieces of wood are missing, and the player needs to drag the correct one into the right spot. It is extremely simple, but it fit our scoop and was related to the carpentry field. This type of game was chosen because the professor highlighted the importance of placement. So we designed this game to highlight the importance of placement in the carpentry field.

Besides designing the game, I was responsible for coding the minigame and testing it.

While designing the electrical minigame, we visited the electrical lab at George Brown. We talked to professors, and they discussed the possibilities of what we could show to our target audience.

The professor explained that connecting wires to the appropriate spot is the simplest part of their career. Next, we asked about circuits and what the basics of those were. Having a short mini-lesson, we got enough information to make complete the circuit game. It is a drag-and-drop-themed game; however, we designed it to teach the kids about circuits. Slowly giving them more and more information as the levels went by, the reason was not to overload the player with information all at once. More importantly, having the opportunity to make more levels that eventually get more accurate to real life.

Besides designing the game, I was responsible for coding the minigame and testing it.

While designing the plumbing minigame, we visited the plumbing lab at George Brown. We talked to professors, and they discussed the most essential and first lesson they teach. The importance of proper measurement.

We quickly came up with a simple and interactive game design idea. The player can move a measuring tap around the screen to measure different pipes and need to select the correct one. We designed this to be interactive and experience proper plumbing measurement. The game discusses and gives the players the information so they can learn and experience the tactics plumbers use daily.

Besides designing the game, I was responsible for coding the minigame and testing it.