Eldritch Confection
The Game
Eldritch Confection is a 2D side-scroller, Eat'em up.
You play as Cu, a young Eldritch God, who must eat their way through a Candyland torn by civil war. Developed by a five-person team in a two-month, Pitch, Develop, Design, and Release period.
Process
Wireframes, Game Documentation, Rapid Prototyping, UX iteration based off player feedback, Game Design, Game Writing, Narrative Design
Role
Game Designer & UX Lead
Tools
Figma, Unity, Github Desktop, Notion, Itch.io
Duration
3 months
UX Design Pillars
1.) Create a fun, engaging, and challenging Beat ‘em up experience.
2.) Create a combat loop that will leave players wanting more.
3.) Finish our game with our unique mechanics in a good place game-feel wise.
Design Troubles and Resolutions
How can we make the Eating Mechanic specific to this game? How do we make it unique to our game?
To keep the fast-paced gameplay we wanted for each stage, we made the eating mechanic a two-frame animation that adds onto a “hunger” bar. The hunger bar is connected to Cu’s special abilities the player can use to defeat enemies more quickly.
How can we get a basic sense of narrative within this game?
We decided to give the player a linear progression through Eldritch Confection. Due to scope issues, we couldn’t fully flesh out a whole narrative for the game.
How do we make our control scheme easy to access and understand on both keyboard and controller control schemes?
Once we pivoted to a controller designed experience, we based our keyboard inputs off of Castle Crashers control scheme. It made the most sense and pushed the player to play with a controller.
Credits:
Producer, Ray Sarlatte
Game Writer, Quin Richards
Game Design, Quin Richards
Combat Design, Quin + Ray Sarlatte
UX, Quin Richards
Audio, Quin Richards
Music, Quin Richards
Video, Quin + Brendon Li
Publishing, Ray Sarlatte
Character Artist, Gwen Crookston
Asset Artist, Gwen Crookston
Environment Art, Ray Sarlatte
Designer, Ray Sarlatte
Engineer, Brendon Lee
Engineer, Andy Liu
From Left to Right: Andy Liu, Gwen Crookston, Quin Richards (me), Brendon Li, Ray Scarlatte