Game website: https://serenityforge.com/games/homestead-arcana
- Role: Engineering Lead (promoted from Game Engineer)
- Engine: Unity
- Platform: PC
Become an adventurous spell-wielding Witch and venture into the frontier corrupted with Miasma. Discover the secret behind its mysterious appearance, build your homestead, and power up your spells with nature to heal the land.
Create Your Own Homestead
Build your very own homestead from the ground up. Discover new plants and tend to your ever-growing garden as you craft new equipment and spell potions to reclaim and heal the land and make it your own.
Discover The Secret of The Miasma
Venture out into the deathly Miasma to unravel its mystery and heal the frontier. Survive and explore this hostile environment where dangerous warped creatures roam free. Bring back new plants and spells to grow your homestead and journey even deeper into the corrupted lands in search of its secrets.
Wield Nature’s Magic to Heal The World
Become an adventurous spell-wielding Witch and grow your powers to heal the world. Tap into the strength of nature to craft spells and ready yourself for the challenges ahead as you work with your friendly cat familiar, Huckleberry, to beat back the deathly Miasma.
My role and responsibilities:
Joined the Serenity Forge team in late 2020 to work on Homestead Arcana. Started working on various systems but eventually found my place in creating tools. There I created various tools for designers and artists to use to improve their workflow and help smooth the transition between large systems in the game. The largest tools/systems I created were a branching dialogue system to allow for node based editing of localized dialogue with VO and a player action tracking system that hooked into a quest system to empower easy creation of tracked objectives and tasks.
After the second half of development I took over as Engineering Lead. I was in charge of being the contact for and directing the external porting, QA, and LQA studios. I spearheaded new testing workflows and worked with all members of the team to manage the backlog of tasks to pass milestones and send out deliverables on time. This role evolved continued past release for our development team as the project came to a close. In the role led engineering efforts for maximum efficiency and team workflow as well as creating and maintaining a library of useful tools and documentation for the entire studio to pull from for future projects.