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Role: Effects Designer

Platform: PC, Mobile

Software: Unity

Project Description: Talisman of Ethshar is a puzzle game created by a group of 5. It's themed around the world of Ethshar from the open-ended series of fantasy stories by Lawrence Watt-Evans. To solve the puzzles, you draw lines to connect dots in particular patterns in a single stroke to create talismans.

While my team and I were working on this game, we got to a point where the game worked fine but it didn't look appealing. We were supposed to be constructing magical talismans, but instead, it just looked like we were connecting dots.

To solve this issue, I did two things to add the magical appeal to the game. The first thing that I did was add particle effects to show that the talismans emitted magic when drawn correctly. The second thing that I did was change the color of the lines that were drawn once the talisman was correctly drawn to show that the ink used to draw the lines has magical properties too, and they were activated once the talisman was drawn correctly.

These additions helped to establish that the player was creating something magical, which was the intended theme of this game.