Filippo Gandini

Lettertopia is a game designed as an app for the physical game set created by Osmo Company. In this cooperative writing game, players utilize letters to compose words, navigating through levels and overcoming diverse enemies, referred to as Creatures.

The key mechanic involves moving through these Creatures while using words that describe them. To accomplish different Objectives and advance through progressively challenging Levels, players employ a variety of Characters. Lettertopia combines creativity, language skills, and strategic thinking for an engaging and educational gaming experience.

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On LETTERTOPIA, I was a Game Designer, My duties included:

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• Conceptualize gameplay, core game loop

• Write all concepts documents and the GDD

• Creation of the concept of characters, traps and enemies

• Creation of levels with a simple editor

• Create the list of all the game words

• Divide characters in tiers and assign words to them

• Conceptualize game worlds by style

• Create a level progression in difficulty and complexity of words used by players

• Collaborating closely with environment artists, animators, programmers, etc.

• So much more!

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Gameplay: 

Gameplay: The game unfolds within a grid-based environment, where players initiate their journey from specific grid points, the placement of which varies between levels. Adversaries consist of AI-controlled entities, each exhibiting distinct behavioral patterns categorized in the Enemies section.

Employing a turn-based mechanism, players strategically maneuver their characters toward the level objective zone during their designated turns. Collaboration is pivotal as players navigate the grid, undertaking the collection of Creatures and working collectively to fulfill level objectives.

To execute a Movement action, the controlling player must formulate an existing English word in any orthogonal arrangement. The permissible words are systematically outlined in the user interface, and each character possesses a unique set of words.

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Game Lore: Game characters embody a collective of heroic "DreamNauts" embarking on a journey through diverse dreams to locate, capture, and collect the "little creatures" that have escaped from the realm where dreams originate. The in-game World selection hub serves as the home base, from which the "DreamNauts" access portals leading to randomly generated Dream Worlds. This hub marks the starting point for their quest to recapture the elusive creatures that have wandered beyond the boundaries of their dream origin.

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