For this project, we had to create a racing game from scratch in Unreal Engine 5.4.

The final result is an arcade game where you control a toy car in a kid's room, trying to escape a vacuum cleaner. While driving, you will have to dodge the various toys that the kid set in your path ; you can dash to get through the bubbles, and honk to push the figurines away.

The game is a few minutes long.

Escape from Roomba was our very first videogame project. We were 3 Game Design students and 6 3D students working together for a month. The goal was to deliver a working Unreal Engine build at the end of the month.
The tasks were split between the 3 of us : I was the Producer, and responsible for the Level Design. In addition to these roles, we all kept Game Design responsibilities and tasks throughout the production.

There were a lot of first times in this project: it was my first time working on an actual prototype, after several exercises through the year and two previous workshops on concepts and board games; it was also our first time working with the 3D students; and it was my first time being a producer and having to manage communication and organisation between two teams.

At first, we wanted to make a puzzle-based racing game, in which the player had to solve small puzzles while driving in order to unlock the way further down the road. After some time, we realized this idea wouldn't work, so we started back again and found something simpler and easier to design.