Monsters Rising
Monsters Rising is a AAA 3rd person action strategy for iOS. Play as monsters of Chinese mythology, in a bid to take over the world! Fight against humans and mythical monsters from around the world!
We wanted to build a gesture-driven game that could combine the fun tactical elements of an RTS with rewarding 3rd person action with a presentation that was colourful, fresh and unique. We chose to base our characters on mythologies & stories from around the world as many of these creatures have never been seen in games & it would enable a very cool degree of culturalization (beyond simple language translation). Plus, monsters are cool.
We built a team of 18 (at peak) of experienced & new developers to build the game in Unity.
Monsters Rising was featured by Apple at launch!
Achievements
– Created & released a new Intellectual Property
– Directed the team, balancing quality with schedule
– Designed, tuned & balanced all player characters (10) & enemy characters (10+)
– Designed & tuned gameplay systems (including unit selection, movement & more)
– Created & iterated on all gesture inputs
– Directed a 4-person design team in building mechanics & missions
– Built, scripted, iterated on missions
– Wrote & edited all in-mission dialogue & the campaign script
– Mentored new designers
Awesome!
