Summary:

As a game and level design intern at Triumph Studios  I was treated as one of their full-time game designers. During my time working on Age of Wonders III, I created spells, abilities, characters, creatures and multiplayer scenario maps and more (see responsibilities).

Furthermore I was responsible for the research, exploration and final design of the skill tree systems. At the end of my internship I redesigned the basic race units to have more synergy and a different playstyle to keep the early game more strategic. After that I balanced their stats and playtested significantly to ensure the new units were entertaining.

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned, implemented and balanced all the base race units.
  Including: irregulars, infantry, pikemen, archers, cavalry and priests
• Made a system design for handling water and took care of the implementation. Including: water function, water structure support, frozen water decorations, barrier reefs and other movement blockers
• Took care of the Item forge functionality, implementation and design.
• Made two multiplayer scenario maps: The bridal chase, New world bravery, The contested lady.
• Designed the courier system.
• Designed the onhold system for city productions.
• Made and implemented abilities, skills and spells.
  Including: Frozen water, enchanted walls, resurgence, Overload, cloack domain, touch of faith, shoot pistol, chain lightning, locust swarm, rot, scorching earth, mind control and many more!
• Implemented all the XML data for the cities, dwellings and fortresses. And even added some new names!
• Designed targeters. Including: Magic – tactical donut targeter
• Made and edited sounds. Including: open & close gate, earthquake, pioneer walk, Furious charge, victory rush and spirit breath
• Made designs for specializations.
• Fixed the razing and rebuilding of cities and city outskirts using scripting (LUA) & the resource manager.
• Made a design and provided solutions for all the problems with ranged rules and visualizations on the tactical map.
• Made designs and visual explorations for a possible skill tree system.
• Tracked the completion of all the animations, and tasked any missing.
• Completed descriptions in XML and abilities/skills/spells of most items.
• Fixed and reported a lot of bugs.
• Tasked and designed icons for skills and spells.