George Hewitt

Systems and Gameplay Designer

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Finding Fungi

2024

Systems Design UX Design Testing and Balancing Solo Project

A collaborative, survival, card-based game were players venture through dangerous woodlands to find mushrooms.
It follows a loose dungeon-crawler format, focusing on co-operative tactics, adventure and combat.

Platform
Board Game

Using
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft Excel

Available
Design and Mockup Documents

Goals

Learn how to create board game systems and mechanics from ideation to balance, including combat, randomness and player count.

Improve communication and UX by creating and refining a beginner-friendly rulebook.

Develop my testing and iteration skills, developing multiple iterations

Key Design Decisions

Simple game loop - easy for beginners.

Adding bite-size complexity throughout, using themed instructional cards.

Purposeful randomness for excitement and replayability while avoid soft-locking.

Varied testing groups to balance enemy difficulty and item abundance with different player numbers.

Changes made to navigation and inventory systems to enhance co-operative focus.

I utilised Adobe Firefly to create AI art for the game.

Sample Assets

Inspiration

Fungi

Nature/mushroom theme.
Card-based environment.

Escape the Dark Castle

Cooperative and narrative focus.
Dark theme.
Dice-based combat.

Dungeons and Dragons

Cooperative and narrative focus.
Exciting events and randomness.

Rulebook Iteration

First Draft

Itermediate Product

Final Product

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