Road Through The Woods (Game)

Season

Summer 2023

Team

Andrew Day, Vivian Gatica, Zoie Lancaster, Corain Marneweck

Tools

Photoshop, Blender, Maya, Substance Painter, Unreal Engine 5

Role

3D Environment Lead, Co-Project Manager

Game link (Itch)

“Road Through The Woods” is a stylized, 3D platformer game developed over a summer course. The user plays as a cat journeying through the haunted Ivory Rat Woods, chasing a spirit mouse.

As 3D Environment Lead, I was responsible for modeling and surfacing a portion of the game assets. As Co-Project Manager, I handled submissions and presentation, in addition to writing the GDD (game design document). I surfaced both characters with Corain’s 2D assets, assisted in environment layout, and portions of programming, including UI screens (UE5) and mouse sprite effect (Niagara). I had the fortune of bringing the lighthouse prop, seen at the game’s end, through the full pipeline.

Game trailer, by Zoie Lancaster