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INTRODUCTION

FOOD FIGHT is a tabletop game about making dishes and throwing food to conquer your enemies in a post apocalyptic world. Players, as students, will find themselves enrolled in a chef academy, ready to discover the world, develop themselves and their flaming hot passions for both cooking and combat.

project details

Duration

3 months

PROJECT TYPE

Short Film

TEAM SIZE

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

Short Film created via Sequencer in Unreal Engine

software used

Unreal Engine 5

ASSET CREDITS

Images from Unsplash,

themadcartographer, for use of their worm diagram (pg 21, Campaign Booklet).

Role & responsibilities

Role

Narrative Designer

As a Narrative Designer, I was responsible for both writing the rules of the game within the Rulebook alongside the descriptions of the characters and scenarios that occurred within the Campaign booklet.

Contributions:

Ensuring rules of the system was relayed accurately and concisely
Ensuring terminologies were kept consistent.
Creating page descriptions and rule examples in Rulebook
Describing instructions, scenarios, character actions and personalities in Campaign Booklet
Creating descriptions of enemies for the Unit Catalogue
Sourcing for appropriate images

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PROCESSES

PROJECT PREMISE

The project started with a focus on creating the systems. Each member of the team had to create their own combat system related to the idea of 'academia'. As a team, to create some form of cohesion, we also decided on another key phrase to rely on: 'culinary'.

Once our individual systems were reviewed, we settled on another member's ruleset, determined to convert it into a full rulebook by the end of the project. This ruleset came with the concept of defeating food monsters in a post apocalyptic world, by creating dishes and throwing it at enemies.

AESTHETIC GOALS

For our first pass, the style of the rulebook was attempting to mimic a worn cookbook. However, we considered that the vintage appearance was difficult to work, from readability issues to sourcing for images that fit well with our aesthetic.

After performing some research on other tabletop rulebooks, our team decided to mimic the minimalistic style of Vampyre: the Masquerade while preserving cookbook elements relevant to our theme. With consideration for reading these books in print, this meant a split-column layout for text, with images and diagrams spliced around them.

Ultimately, the style of the book resulted in pages that were neat and tidy, with a magazine-like appearance.

CONVEYANCE OF CLARITY

We received feedback from playtesting sessions early on that certain sections of the rulebook were unclear to players, and more imagery and examples could be used to better convey information. Additionally, the stylistic choices we'd decided upon helped us guide the direction of how our diagrams should look like.

We also settled the verbiage we should use early on within the team (eg. Chefs to refer to player characters). Game terms were either abbreviated (eg. Movement to MVT) or mentioned using sentence case (eg. Height, as a terrain mechanic).

SCENARIO DRAFTING

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rEFLECTIONS

This was by far one of the smoother projects to complete in my experience. During the 3 months of development, I had little other obligations (i.e. classes) to tend to, and so could focus most of my time on improving this project as I so wished.

Most of the challenges our team faced were likely communication issues due to the lack of a cohesive schedule. However, we still attempted daily contact and kept queries/responses brief.

In conclusion, this project brought me a large amount of joy in playing to my narrative strengths. I thoroughly enjoyed myself during the creation of this project; thinking through the backstory of the world, and mimicking the type of voice one might find in an official tabletop campaign booklet.

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INTRODUCTION

project details

Role & responsibilities

As a Narrative Designer, I was responsible for both writing the rules of the game within the Rulebook alongside the descriptions of the characters and scenarios that occurred within the Campaign booklet.

Contributions:

Ensuring rules of the system was relayed accurately and concisely

Ensuring terminologies were kept consistent.

Creating page descriptions and rule examples in Rulebook

Describing instructions, scenarios, character actions and personalities in Campaign Booklet

Creating descriptions of enemies for the Unit Catalogue

Sourcing for appropriate images

PROJECT SHOWCASE

PROCESSES

PROJECT PREMISE

The project started with a focus on creating the systems. Each member of the team had to create their own combat system related to the idea of 'academia'. As a team, to create some form of cohesion, we also decided on another key phrase to rely on: 'culinary'.

Once our individual systems were reviewed, we settled on another member's ruleset, determined to convert it into a full rulebook by the end of the project. This ruleset came with the concept of defeating food monsters in a post apocalyptic world, by creating dishes and throwing it at enemies.

AESTHETIC GOALS

For our first pass, the style of the rulebook was attempting to mimic a worn cookbook. However, we considered that the vintage appearance was difficult to work, from readability issues to sourcing for images that fit well with our aesthetic.

Ultimately, the style of the book resulted in pages that were neat and tidy, with a magazine-like appearance.

CONVEYANCE OF CLARITY

We also settled the verbiage we should use early on within the team (eg. Chefs to refer to player characters). Game terms were either abbreviated (eg. Movement to MVT) or mentioned using sentence case (eg. Height, as a terrain mechanic).

SCENARIO DRAFTING

content creation

rEFLECTIONS

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INTRODUCTION

project details

Role & responsibilities

As a Narrative Designer, I was responsible for both writing the rules of the game within the Rulebook alongside the descriptions of the characters and scenarios that occurred within the Campaign booklet.

Contributions:

Ensuring rules of the system was relayed accurately and concisely

Ensuring terminologies were kept consistent.

Creating page descriptions and rule examples in Rulebook

Describing instructions, scenarios, character actions and personalities in Campaign Booklet

Creating descriptions of enemies for the Unit Catalogue

Sourcing for appropriate images

PROJECT SHOWCASE

PROCESSES

PROJECT PREMISE

The project started with a focus on creating the systems. Each member of the team had to create their own combat system related to the idea of 'academia'. As a team, to create some form of cohesion, we also decided on another key phrase to rely on: 'culinary'.

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Once our individual systems were reviewed, we settled on another member's ruleset, determined to convert it into a full rulebook by the end of the project. This ruleset came with the concept of defeating food monsters in a post apocalyptic world, by creating dishes and throwing it at enemies.

AESTHETIC GOALS

For our first pass, the style of the rulebook was attempting to mimic a worn cookbook. However, we considered that the vintage appearance was difficult to work, from readability issues to sourcing for images that fit well with our aesthetic.

Ultimately, the style of the book resulted in pages that were neat and tidy, with a magazine-like appearance.

CONVEYANCE OF CLARITY

We also settled the verbiage we should use early on within the team (eg. Chefs to refer to player characters). Game terms were either abbreviated (eg. Movement to MVT) or mentioned using sentence case (eg. Height, as a terrain mechanic).

SCENARIO DRAFTING

content creation

rEFLECTIONS