NOW RATS COOKING!
LAUREL PRATT
September 2018 - December 2019
Now Rats Cooking! is a 3D fantasy platformer and cooking game. The player comes from a long lineage of rat chefs, and now it is their turn to prove their cooking chops and earn their chef's hat. They will scavenge for ingredients, test new recipes, and build friendships with the locals and they deliver them freshly cooked meals.
GAME FOOTAGE
my WORK
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Developed nine unique characters
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Wrote dialogue
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Wrote bite-sized character plotlines
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Created character-unique rewards upon plotline completion
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Implemented character interactions in Unity using C# and Fungus
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White-boxed and set-dressed a hub-based level in Unity
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Scaled level to the perspective of a rat with focus on verticality
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Put emphasis on exploration with pickups and multiple pathways
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Designed a cooking system with six ingredients and 30+ recipes
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Created a randomized food requests system for NPCs
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Gave NPCs unique food preferences that scaled in difficulty
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Created a completionist recipe book to track unlocked recipes
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Implemented visual and audio feedback
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Created all assets in Maya
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Animated characters in Unity
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Edited sound effects in Audacity
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Created talk sprites and UI in Adobe Photoshop
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GAME POLISH
THE POLISH PHASE
You may have noticed my development time was split into two chunks. That's because I returned a year later to polish and expand upon this game.
On my second pass, I spent the first half of development in production before entering post-production and a polishing phase. In the process, I refined the level, expanded the cooking system, updated the art, and added nine new characters with individual personalities, food tastes, and storylines.
