oskarlazar
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SorcerAI
SorcerAI 2D puzzle roguelike AI training game— downloadable on itch.io Demonstrates: AI Design, System Design Role:Solo Dev System Design Challenge In my Bachelor’s Thesis, I ponder the question how AI can be used to dynamically influence a game system during play. In the draft for designing my system, there are several requirements: Workflow Over a short…
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Karma Games
Karma Games 6 mid- to heavyweight strategic Euro board games—to be purchased here Me @ Karma Games Team Role:IT Generalist, Computer-Assisted Translation Manager, Process Designer, Graphic Designer,Digital and Analog Prototyper, Human Ressources Games Clans of Caledonia: Industria Expansion to award-winning “Clans of Caledonia“ My game design-related contributions include Peninsula My game design-related contributions to this…
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Chromatic Shift
Chromatic Shift First-person puzzle shooter Demonstrates: Level Design Role:Solo Dev Level Design Challenge Create a learning curve to explain the games’ main and secondary mechanics through increasingly complex puzzles. Workflow I sketched out my puzzles beforehand, starting with one of the more difficult levels, which ended up being Level 6 / 7. I then reverse…
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Paris 1788
Paris 1788 LLM chatbot NPC in engine Demonstrates: Technical Implementation Role:Solo Dev Technical Implementation Challenge Implementing a large language model API into my own Unity / Unreal project without a paid subscription or dependency on a non-open-source provider. —> self-hosting. The AI should Solution First, I set up a Jupyter Notebook that would later host…
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Auto Runner
Auto Runner 2D auto runner Oskar Lazar, Dong Woo Shin Demonstrates: Procedural Map Generatioon Role:System Designer, Programmer Procedural Map Generation Challenge With little time (1 day) and resources (2 people) available, we needed at least some level of replayability for this auto runner. Solution With collectibles, power-ups, or pre-made levels off the table, I resorted…
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Monochroma
Monochroma 3rd-person parkour vandalism game Alice Di Pinto, Oskar Lazar, Georg Lehmann, Simon Schürmann Demonstrates: Button Mapping Role:System Designer, Level Designer, Programmer, UI Artist, Producer Button Mapping Challenge Managing all desired inputs onto a gamepad without accidentally implementing counter-intuitive mappings or overloading the input devices for such a short game. The following inputs were required:…
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Hypnagogia
Hypnagogia Narrative rhapsodic text adventure Oskar Lazar, Toby Pravemann, Moritz Hilger Demonstrates: System Design Role:System Designer, Technical Implementation System Design Challenge The player must experience a ruminating type experience through seemingly random thoughts, reflective of those experienced in the period of time right before falling asleep. This phase is called hypnagogia. At the same time,…
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Shellycoat
Shellycoat 3D narrative action-adventure platformer— downloadable on itch.io Vikor Gjorgjeski, Oskar Lazar, Hana Rensch, Leon Schurer, Melina Weber Demonstrates: Character Controller Design Role:System Designer,Programmer, UI, UX Character Controller Design Challenge Shellycoat is meant to be played by a child / young adult and their grandparent. This intergenerational experience requires a nuanced approach. The narrative is…
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Plastic
Plastic Mid-weight Strategy Eurogame Linavalo Hinyemata, Oskar Lazar, Liyuan Sun, Sarah @ IMT Lucca Demonstrates: System Design Role:System Designer, Producer System Design Challenge In this 1-week game jam, we were tasked with creating a board game that incorporated the concept of circular economy, be that as the central game flow or the topic of the…
