Silvatya

(3rd person action adventure game, Unreal Engine 4, student project, 2021/22)

Silvatya is a 3rd-person action-adventure set in the fantasy genre. The player takes control of Soraya and Tarek, two siblings separated by a war who experience both sides of the conflict while trying to get back to each other. Soraya is a stealthy archer proficient in magic, while Tarek wields his sword and shield in a more brute manner. Either has to adapt to their environment to survive, both in their narrative and gameplay.

The project was realized within 3 semesters at Media Univerity Stuttgart. I was part of the team for the 2nd and 3rd term of production. The process was agile and remote, using Confluence and Jira for pre-production and communication, as well as Perforce for versioning.

My responsibilities:

Game Mechanics

• Designing physical and magical combat abilities, stealth and AI behavior within the restrictions of pre-made systems

Writing

• Planning and adapting the story
• Creating characters and locations with their own story lines
• Writing ingame texts from branching dialogues during the main story to small interactions for flavor, world building and tutorialization
• Directing the voice acting and editing the audio
• Implementing text and audio into the engine using a modified behavior tree as dialogue system

Quest Design

• Designing, writing and implementing quests that fit into the main story and explore both world and characters.