Equinox
Open Alpha USC, Fall 2021
My introduction to game design began with the creation of Equinox. Before working on this team, I had never worked on anything of the sort. After having such a positive experience being surrounded by such inspiring individuals, I absolutely fell in love with the creative process behind designing and writing a video game.
For this project, I met weekly with a large cohort of diverse students accepted into Open Alpha, a game-making organization within USC Games/Engineering. The team included artists, programmers, sound designers, and game designers. Additional design meetings were held on top of our general meetings, in which I proposed the major beats for our finished story and crafted the mechanics/technical aspects of Equinox. I also wrote several poems and sets of couplets that were ultimately included in the final product, and illustrated the UI (buttons) for the final game as well.
This experience was pivotal in terms of developing my interest in games. There was something magical about working with such a wonderful team of people and watching our idea come to life, and seeing our work on Steam was absolutely unreal!
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Left: One of several rhyming couplets I wrote for Equinox.
Right: Intro poem I wrote as part of Equinox's opening sequence,
Our final trailer for Equinox, which can be found on on the game's Steam page!
Left: Color-coded level layout I designed for our procedurally-generated stages.
Right: Me (wearing the white baseball cap) with several of my awesome teammates on our club retreat!
