Reka
Description
Reka is an atmospheric third person exploration and house building game, set in rural Europe of the late 19th century. Play as the herb witch Reka, and travel the countryside in your cottage with chicken legs. Collect ingredients, produce medicine and magical goods, to aid local villagers and expand your home and make it truly yours by filling it with crafting stations, furniture and decorative elements. While exploring, you will stumble across special sites, where you will be faced with different challenges. Master these and you will earn rewards that could help you progress in the game, or serve as a memento which can be used to decorate your home.
My contribution
- Programming
For this project I did a lot of programming and work in Unity. Next to many other systems and behaviours I was responsible for crafting, the inventory, UI management, interaction management (“press E to interact”), a system to balance quest difficulty, a system to decide which quests and collectibles spawn on a map, a minigame interaction to heal NPCs and many more. I also dealed with the technical side and setup of all UIs, including those which appear as 3D interfaces in the world (like crafting stations as seen in the video). Later on I implemented art for the UIs together with the artists. - Game System Design
I co-created the games core loop. To shape the creative vision I prototyped a lot of different mechanics in the earlier stages of the project and iterated on the promising ones. I was responsible for the players journal, a book-style UI where all the needed information is stored. I worked on what information is needed and to what extend it needs to be displayed. Another thing I spend much time on was the design of a minigame interaction to heal NPCs. Regarding game design I otherwise helped out everywhere a little, consulting, testing and giving feedback.
