Black Legend

Black Legend

A dark, immersive turn-based strategy RPG. Learn the art of 17th-century alchemy to free a doomed city from a bloodthirsty cult led by the great alchemist Mephisto.

Engine: Unreal Engine 4

Release date: 25th of March 2021

Genre: Turn-based Strategy, RPG, 

 
 

Content and contributions:

  • Improve level encounters by rebalancing them and generating more variety in the gameplay.
  • Remove friction in the in-world navigation.
  • QA test and give design feedback to further polish the product.
  • Support and help design for a multi-disciplinary team with their post-launch updates leading to a significant increase in positive reviews.
  • Set up playtests and feedback-gathering processes for active community members to test upcoming patches. 
Updating encounter design and set difficulty based on progression, optional content and/or gating
Updating encounter design and set difficulty based on progression, optional content and/or gating
Introducing a map and minimap for easier navigation
Introducing a map and minimap for easier navigation
Adding a guide to explain certain game features for onboarding and returning players
Adding a guide to explain certain game features for onboarding and returning players
Using lighting to start guiding the player to certain quest objectives
Using lighting to start guiding the player to certain quest objectives
Adding UI onboarding
Adding UI onboarding

Supported a team with post launch updates

Responsibilities involved were:

  • Deep analysis of the project, community feedback and game data to identify frictions
    • Manage dependencies like localisation, and production time of the feature.
    • Once established, plan out patches.
  • Feature contributions I brought to the product:
    • Reduction of friction in world navigation by using lighting, reduction in repetitive asset usage, and signpost feature.
    • Rebalancing of all combat encounters to introduce more variety in encounters, using difficulty matrixes.
    • Improvements to game onboarding, such as additional UI explaining all features, such as the guide and first player encounters.
    • Help develop the mega map and minimap feature.
    • QA testing boss fights and re-design Adriaans’ fight.
    • Set up playtests with community members to gather feedback and validate that the changes will have the desired impact.
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