Game Designer / Technical Artist
Shiba Island
Project Lead, Designer
Shiba Island is a 4-player co-op strategy board game where the island changes each playthrough via procedurally generated island boards, encouraging diverse strategies and offering new challenges!
Role | Project Lead, Lead Designer, Artist
Duration | 2019
Programs | Photoshop, Illustrator, Excel
Team Size | 4
Time-pressure Strategy
4 - Player Co-op
Awards and Recognition:
❖ Showcased at USC Games Front Desk
❖ Published on The Game Crafter
4-Player Co-op
Strategy
About:
Shiba Island was a 6-week long project which I designed, pape-prototyped, and pitched to be one of the final game projects for a USC games course in my freshman year. It got chosen, so myself and a small team of 3 others completed and polished the game, publishing on The Game Crafter. It is now showcased at the front desk of USC Games.
My Role on this Game:
As the Project lead and Designer on Shiba Island, I drafted and constructed the rules, drafted and created all of the board game pieces, and playtested my iterations of the game.
This project was built around the emotion goal of "relief," which turned out to be much more challenging than initially anticipated. However, through iterative design and repeated playtesting, I was able to create a game that put enough pressure onto players so that at the end of each turn if the player survived, they would feel a sigh of relief.
Shiba Island
Design Photo Journal:
Process Shots: 3 major iterations, many prototypes. A lot of testing.
