Jack Lumberman — ClaesLewenhaupt

By Claes Lewenhaupt, Sara Stern, Taylor Shorten & Max Burgess.

My responsibilities :Level design, game design, animator & user interface.

Controller highly recommended

AWARDED FOR BEST FINAL PROJECT AT VANCOUVER FILM SCHOOL CLASS GD39

"Jack Lumberman and the Axe of time is a 3D brawler where you play as Jack Lumberman himself. By wielding the magical artifact, the Axe of Time, Jack is able to summon clones of himself from other dimensions to aid him in battle against evil logging robots"

In creating Jack Lumberman and the Axe of Time, our team wanted to tackle the challenge of a brawler while still experimenting within the confines of the genre. In addition to a two-button combo system of light and heavy attacks, Jack has the ability to summon clones to aid him in battle using the Axe of Time. These clones are summoned whenever the player deals damage with the end of a combo finisher.

Short on level design

Encounter Laboratory

I created a bunch of "arenas" where I could test out different enemy lineups in different situations. The several setups who where fun to play made it into the final design of the levels.

Trial and Error

This was my first time using Unity's tools for level design. I attempted using the terrain tool for a while. But it was hard to control and we also found out that it was the cause for our bigger performance issues during alpha. So I stuck to white boxing our levels with Unity's 3D shapes.

Final results

When whiteboxing was done I then used a script to turn everything into mesh. Which allowed our artist to work his magic.

My Proudest Achievement

Cutting the story from the game meant that we needed something else to drive player motivations with. So we put a lot of effort on making the overall universe and environment feel alive and convincing. These efforts where very appreciated and well received by people from our industry night. "You rarely see this in student games these days".