Sleep Swimmer
Beyond Tomorrow Studios
Role: Technical Designer / UX Designer
January 2024 - present
Role: Technical Designer / UX Designer
January 2024 - present
Game Summary
Sleep Swimmer is a 2D cozy narrative adventure game where you float around an underwater world making friends with salamander people and collecting sounds to mix on your DJ set.
Gameplay revolves around exploring the town and surrounding areas, interacting with unique characters, making music with the DJ mixing mechanics, and uncovering the story of Aria and the salamanders. Players swim around this lush, vibrant aquatic world and collect sounds, mix them on their DJ set, and make friends with the salamander townsfolk.
The DJ mechanic involves a UI DJ panel that mimics a simplified mixing deck in order to make an accessible music making tool for people that aren't necessarily skilled or knowledgeable in music making. This mechanic gives the player a sense of mastery as they collect sounds then mix them together within the DJ system.
Contribution:
Tools Used:
Unity Engine
The game is set to release on Steam in early 2025
Wishlist On Steam
Gameplay revolves around exploring the town and surrounding areas, interacting with unique characters, making music with the DJ mixing mechanics, and uncovering the story of Aria and the salamanders. Players swim around this lush, vibrant aquatic world and collect sounds, mix them on their DJ set, and make friends with the salamander townsfolk.
The DJ mechanic involves a UI DJ panel that mimics a simplified mixing deck in order to make an accessible music making tool for people that aren't necessarily skilled or knowledgeable in music making. This mechanic gives the player a sense of mastery as they collect sounds then mix them together within the DJ system.
Contribution:
- Iteratively designed, developed and implemented UI elements including the DJ system.
- Closely collaborated with programming, art and sound design departments to create new and improve existing gameplay systems and engine tools to streamline the development process.
- Implemented gameplay content including level designs, puzzles and quests.
- Created custom shaders using shader graphs.
- Optimised game for size and performance.
Tools Used:
Unity Engine
The game is set to release on Steam in early 2025
Wishlist On Steam