SIDDHARTH MENON
GAME DESIGN Generalist
Exploring unique ideas with interactive media and narrative
Thunderclap
3D Puzzle game
In Thunderclap you play as Spark, a young inventor seeking to join a guild of lightning mages. Spark does not have magic, but she does have a set of gadgets she invented that emulate lightning abilities. Use these gadgets to pass an array of tests so that you may join the guild.My Roles: Game Design, Technical Design, Narrative
Development Time : Ongoing since August 2023 (Team Project)
Design Process Overview
Part I : Game Design Goal
The goal of Thunderclap was to use a classic game experience to teach the fundamentals of real electrical discharge.
My objective here was to test the ability of "thematic disguise", using a entertainment focused game to deliver an educational reward.
Thus the game had to emulate real lightning behavior in its mechanics.
Part II : Technical Design
Three major participants can be identified in lightning discharge - the source, the conductor and the end. My approach to technical design to meet the design goals was to create a node based system, where each node behaved like one of the three participants.
Part III : Implementation
The major advantage of the node system was that as long as components were created using different combinations of the three nodes, they would always follow the fundamentals of real electrical discharge that the game was centered around.
Twisted Ladder
Research Project
Twisted Ladder is an educational game intended to help college level biology students distinguish between different categories of DNA visualizations based on scale and abstraction. I worked as sole developer to design and build three minigames targeting different methods of distinguishing these diagrams.Roles: Game Design, Game Development
Development Time : 6 months(Part-Time)
Project Spook
3D Horror Game
"Hang on Lisa, I'm bringing you home."
Embark into a foggy, snowy forest to try and find your little sister who went missing during a field trip. Careful, something strange lurks within.Roles: Level Design, Narrative Design
Development time : 4 months(Team Project)
The Final Journey
2D Visual novel
"You and I are all that remain of human civilization."
Play as an artifical intelligence in a drop pod. Your companion is the only survivor of the explosion of a migratory spaceship. Keep him calm as you find a final resting place for him.Roles: Narrative Design, Development
Development Time : 3 weeks(Team Project)
The Vestigian
2D ACTION PLATFORMER(android)
Play as Tae-sha, an archer who journeys across her dying world to ensure that no other world would share the same fate. Master the Dimensional Fractcal, manipulating space to teleport to the arrows you fire.Roles: Game Design, Narrative, Development
Development Time: 4 weeks (Personal Project)
The Little Dragon
2D Platformer
Play as a draco-lizard, a small gliding lizard as he embarks on a revenge quest. Wield the fire of your ancestors against a nest of super termites that razed your home forest.
Roles: Narrative Design, Gameplay Design, Development
Development time : 3 months(Team Project)
Sequence
Mobile Board Game
developed for digient games
A mobile game adaptation of the popular board game Sequence, built during my employment at Digient (digient.in).
Roles: Developer
Time to release : 8 months
Beyond Frontiers : Star's End
competitive game
"On that day, our future was shattered."Play with and against your "allies" to salvage the wreckage of a destroyed fleet for information and equipment. The game follows an action point system. Players move their ships across an area of space equipping gear and deciphering data on six planets that bear a precious resource. Those who land on the planet with the most of it, win the game.Roles: Game Design, Narrative
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