En Garde! (2023)

• Genre:

  Swashbuckling Action-Adventure Game

• Description:

  En Garde! is a third-person swashbuckler action game!
  Battle graceless guards and nefarious noblemen in fast-paced fights full of spectacle. Use the environment, your wit and your blade to teach them all a lesson!

  During this project, I was Gameplay Designer & Playtest Coordinator.
  I also co-founded Fireplace Games in 2020.

• What I did:

  • Designing the 3Cs, the game systems, the combat system and the gameplay elements.
  • Designing AI behaviors, archetypes and boss fights, and writing the documentation for the Programmers.
  • Implementing combat animations, gameplay notifies and hitboxes alongside the Animators.
  • Prototyping environmental interactions and testing maps — “zoos” — for all the game features.
  • Designing and implementing game achievements, level challenges and arena mode modifiers.
  • Gameplay tweaking and balancing on a daily basis, directly in the Game Engine.
  • Coordination, supervision and analysis of the playtest sessions at Halle Tropisme, Montpellier.
  • Development of the Fireplace Games and En Garde! websites, as Webmaster.

• AWARDS:

  Pégases 2024 - Best Debut Game - Winner (FR)
  

• Developers:

  Fireplace Games

  Publishers:

  Fireplace Games / Kepler Interactive

  RELEASED:

  PC (Steam) - August, 2023

• Tool(s) used:

  Unreal Engine 5.1 (Game Engine)
  Plastic SCM (Source Control Software)
  Microsoft Office
  Adobe Creative Suite
  Google Drive
  Notion
  Miro