Developed: Mar. '21
Platform: Web (Click to play)
Role/Responsibilities: Lead Designer & Engineer / Game Design, Creative Direction, Development
Platform: Web (Click to play)
Role/Responsibilities: Lead Designer & Engineer / Game Design, Creative Direction, Development
Game Description
Players control a hedgehog while exploring a small town, searching for packages, answering questions, and earning coins.
Design & Development
Word Wiz was developed for Storyworks Magazine as a way to assess students on learned material in a fun and interactive way.
The game leverages navigation and exploration of a virtual world as the core vehicle by which players move from question to question, demonstrating knowledge of learned material. Questions, answers, and package spawn positions are randomized to ensure comprehension over memorization and improve replay value.
The underlying game (HTML5 Canvas) and assessment (HTML overlay) are independent systems that communicate across an event layer, allowing for different learning content and gameplay maps to be easily mixed and matched. A custom integration with the Tiled editor was developed for ease of level design and deployment.