Louis Lefebvre
Game Designer
System designer and Content designer. I strive to make high quality games with a lasting impact on players.
June 2022 - September 2022
Game Design | Beta Analysis
Genre
Management Game
Pitch
Lakeburg Legacies is a social-based village management sim focused on pairing up your townsfolk to make the best, most effective families in order for your kingdom to grow and thrive.
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The player is able to create couples and families of all kinds, and must make sure tthat the needs of the inhabitants of Lakeburg are fulfilled. They will have to balance trheir gameplay between drama and management of the town.
During this internship at Ishtar Games, I was able for the first time to see how a closed beta is handled in the industry from a Game designer's point of view.
In addition to that this internship was my first experience in a studio.
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The first half of my internship was dedicated to analysing and listening to the feedback from the beta testers. Ishtar Games has a really close relationship with their playerbase and this helped to establish a more precise profile of the public.
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At the end of the beta, I was tasked to make a summary and analysis of the players' feedback.
The second half of my internship was heavily influenced by my analysis of the beta. I really tried to incorporate my conclusions into features I was tasked to rework.
Reworking features helped me improve my skills in Game design specifically in System Design, due to the systemic nature of the game.
I was also able to prototype systems and features via Twine and Microsoft Excel. My main task was to rework the dating system, wich you can see on the video.