Hotel Caprys

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Role: Game Designer, Mechanics Designer

High Concept: Hotel Caprys is a game where you have to manage a hotel, from building to assigning fantastical customers to appropriate rooms to keep the customers happy.

Making of the game

Making this game was a challenge, to say the least, as this was my first ever game made on Unity. This game was targeted for an audience of 8 and above, so as a game designer i had to make a management game simple enough to be enjoyed by a younger audience, while giving an older audience some form of challenge to keep them engaged.

To achieve this, when a player puts a customer in a non-preferable room, there are no penalties, only bonuses for when the player makes a correct move. The challenge then came in a form of keeping the hotel's rating up; as the further the player gets in the game, the rating will start to drop more rapidly, which would then require the player's focus to get to the higher tier levels.

The game has no losing condition, so a younger player could play the game indefinitely even if they do not progress up the tiers.

Extra story behind the process of the creation of this game

Initially, this project was requested for by a client who ran a hotel. The client's requirements was that is was to be a game that can be picked up and dropped at any time, and that it would be targeted at young children that had to wait while their parents checked in to a room.

Another requirement was that it had to feature the client's hotel, and that it had to teach good morals to the children, specifically racial harmony.

Unfortunately, the client dropped the request after 3 weeks of waiting, even before hearing about any of our concepts, but we made good use of our work that was done and converted it into a more interesting concept with customers of different fantasy races.

The game was successfully produced, and we even got more work done than initially planned.

Game Design Document

The game design document was written by me, if you are interested in the game, i have attached the document below for your viewing.

Link for GDD:

[ https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9eiLyOW2I7rbVNVMlJ4dFFYUTQ ]