CYBERDRIVE 2077
Lead Designer / Systems Designer
Responsibilities: Completely redesign broken game economy and balance win-lose conditions
CyberDrive 2077 is an intense fast-paced, action-packed and arcade-style endless runner. Race your car through a neon digital landscape at breakneck speeds and drive through endless and challenging obstacles that block your path.
Contributions
Redesigned Level 2 (Node 2) due to a difficulty spike causing players to quit the game and not return to it.
Designed a new weekly Missions System that collects player data and rewards the player with perks to assist them in progressing further.
Communicated with marketing about launch dates for updates in targeted countries such as Russia, most of Eastern Europe, and India as our player base was mostly based in those countries according to DevToDev.
Cyberdrive: 2077 was my first experience doing remote development for MassDiGI starting in May of 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic. We found that people were quitting the game around the second “Node” or level so my main job was to go in, figure out why, and fix it. Through some play testing I found that the difficulty spiked in that Node and then dropped back down in Node 3. With collaboration with the art team and some tweaking to starting in May of 2019. the procedural generation of that Node, we leveled the difficulty curve to where players weren’t immediately quitting. After the difficulty issue was solved I moved over the designing and creating the UI for the Missions System. My time on this project was extremely helpful when adjusting to my time working remote during the pandemic.
