The Scholar's Side Quest
Side Quest Design, 2022
Lead Designer, PM, Level / Quest Design
The Scholar’s Side Quest is a collaborative design project of a third-person action RPG. The story takes place in Letter Town - a small town under the control of a phantasmagoria.
I led a team of 17 skilled students to complete the development of the flow of the quest, which involved authoring the 17-page narrative script, creating a major scene, and producing 13 detailed animation cutscenes using Unreal Engine 4.
WHAT I LEARNED FROM THIS PROJECT?
Dream it
Team Leadership
Script Writing
Quest Flow Design
3D Animation Production
Storyboard
Substance Painter
Unreal Engine
Quest Flow
Environment Design
Level Design
Animation
Environment Design
Conceptualization and Research (Reference)
Editing and Redering
MAIN CONTRIBUTIONS
Video Game Development: Led the “Scholar Side Quest” design for an action RPG, including authoring a 17-page narrative script, engineering a major scene, and producing 13 intricate animation cutscenes with Unreal Engine 4.
Project Planning: Directed a skilled team of 17 students to ascertain project requirements and set forth clear objectives and deliverables.
Leadership: Strategically steered meetings to synchronize team progress, gathered responses and needs, monitored project scope, and resolved roadblocks and issues, contributing to a cohesive team and the success of the project.
Sketching, 3D Blocking Out and Modeling (Iteration)
KEY FEATURES
Hun (Main Character)
The main character, "Hun," is one of Hades' sons who has been trained as a top swordsman.
Li An
Li An is the only daughter of the family of hidden illusionists. Born with forgetfulness and considered by the family to have no talent for learning illusions.
Scholar, Lv Chuan
Lv Chuan was born into an official family. But he enjoys writing novels and does not want to be a government official.
General Xia, Xia Ming
General Xia was a great court general. He comes to Letter Town and wants to break the illusion, but he is conquered and has to stay there to protect Letter Town.
Maid, Cui Yun
Cui Yun worked as a maid for Lv Chuan's family.
Character and Narrative
Gameplay
Dialogue
To progress through the mission, players must interact with NPCs.
The Dialogue plug-in is used to implement the game's dialogue function, which triggers cutscenes at the end of the dialogue.
Animation and Cutscenes
Lighting and Atmosphere (Polish)
Rigging
Wang Lian Mansion
Entrance
Demo Scene
Particle Effects
Map Design and Iteration
Strong Contrasting Color Lighting
Bamboo Forest
Combat
Collect Task
There are 8 of Li An’s notes hidden in the letter town.
Cutscenes
There are 13 cutscenes in the quest flow.
