Expeditions Rome
Logic Artists
Introduction
I worked on this game from 2020 - 2022 as a gameplay programmer. I started out as a intern and then was hired fulltime after 8 months when my internship was over.
Rome is a turnbased stategy RPG set in ancient Rome, and won spilprisen "best game" 2023.
Contributions
Here are a few highlights of things I did for the project.
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Animations: I implemented most of the animations in the game. I was also part of a mocap recording session. I implemented animation related features like takedowns which was that the characters played a execution animation that synced with a animation for the victim of the execution.
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Twitch extension: I worked with a outsourcing studio called Muxy to implement a twitch extension for the game. For example, I made the game tell the extension when it was in combat and sent the battle map with all it's info like where enemies are located, where allies are located. Viewers could then click on a tile on the map in the extension and do something on that tile like start a fire, knock a character down and so on.
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Collaborated with outsourcing studios: I worked together with 3 different outsourcing studios for animations, audio and twitch extension.
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Character creation: Finalized a WiP UI and connected it with our modular body system.
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Tool for localization: Added a tool for localization. I don't remember exactly what it did but I think it wrote out all our dialogue in different languages to a text file so it was easy for the localization team to see which lines were missing translation.
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Marketing camera: Made a camera for the marketing team to use which was a free camera with controller support and other useful features like change a bunch of camera values.
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Interactive cursor: My first task was to make cursors change depending on what they were hovering.
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Avoidance: When characters are moving around in the world they avoid around each other.
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Animals: There were animals in the world that ran/flew away when you got close.