Role: Senior Designer
It was a fantastic experience working with Kudos. Specifically the CEO and Product Owner were very responsive in adapting the teams app culture to game development. The opportunity to work with passionate people, in an analytics atmoshere, merging Chinese and American work culture was a defining experience.
During the production phase of this game our team adapted our agile methodology to better benefit from game design. Specifically, game design goals were addressed, and desgin specs drafted, in sprints preceding art and engineering sprints. This was a great move and clarified our production pipeline, making the whole company more efficient.
Highlights:
Worked directly with CEO and COO on vision document
System design for all game features
Ran alternating sprint meetings with the PO
About
Animal Shelter was a FarmVille style social game. Players built their own animal shelter, upgraded their facilities, and saved animals. The animals were then nursed, nurtured, raised, and eventually adopted away from the shelter.