Genre : Investigation Narrative-RPG
Length : 3 years
Status : From pre-production to launch
Team : 50
Engine : Unreal Engine 5
Plateform : PS5, Xbox Series, PC
What I've done :
- Lead a team of 3 Designers
- Built Design vision, roadmap and production pipelines
- Presented each Design milestones to the editor
- Designed core mechanics (Sonar, Character sheet, Energy and consumables, Dialogue, Tutorials)
- Designed achievements and trophies
- Managed gameplay text localization
- Managed system producing with programmers, VFX artists and Sound designers.
The project
Cthulhu: The cosmic abyss is a modern system focused investigation game. You play an augmented agent exploring
the dark world of dangerous cultists and unspeakable entities.
INVESTIGATION
Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss is a complex and demanding game. Investigations require you to thoroughly search for clues, read them and make accurate deductions about what happened.
Each investigation will ask of you to use your augmented tools:
- The Vault: an interface that gathers clues for you to connect and sort them.
- Analysis: Your AI's secret touch to understand hidden properties of the objects you find.
- The Sonar: a powerfull reasearch tool that highlights the objects responding to the frequencies you selected.
- Evolutions: mysterious ancient knowledge that enhance your AI abilities throughout the game.
CONSEQUENCES
The game is structured in open levels. Each level is centered around a main obstacle which you need to understand to be able to overcome. However, the solution you might be working on isn't always the safest.
Between cultists and ancient entities, you may have trouble finding out what's best for you or the future. Indeed, deep inside
your character's brain,
TRUST PLAYERS
We tried to create an engaging experience where players are responsible of their progression. We designed tools that require intentionality: you need to know what you're looking for in order to find it.
