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As part of co-development with Ubisoft Montreal, we worked on the prototyping, implementation and design tools for a new PvE game mode, Arcade Mode, in the Anvil/Scimitar game engine. We created a procedural content system producing thousands of unique quests while ensuring a high level of designer control.
As part of this project, some of the specific areas I helped to work on included:
- Rapid iteration and playtesting of multiplayer game mode prototypes, adding new elements to the existing gameplay.
- A data-driven system allowing designers to specify the allowed combinations of content in procedural Arcade Mode quests. This included design-time authoring and the pipeline to produce the needed runtime data.
- QA tools to help survey and reproduce specific combinations of procedural content.
- Editor scripts to improve data authoring and review existing data.
- Validation scripts to ensure correct quests were generated, including validating the tagging of content, setup of level ingredients, and other design data.