Vivek Varshney

Bollywood ka Boss - Quiz Game

A Bollywood Trivia game 
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Platform: Android

Role and Responsibilities

Content Creation

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Mahabhoot

This was a Capstone project exploring Indian themes and philosophy in the medium of video games. Here the concept of Indian classical elements (Akash-space, Vayu-air, Jal-water, Agni-fire and Bhoomi-Earth) and the Three Body Doctrine was explored to build lore and game mechanics.

Genre: Action-Adventure, First person
Engine: Unity
Team Size: 1 (Solo)
Duration: January 2020 - June 2020
Platform: PC

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Global Game Jam 2020

This is my submission to the Global Game Jam 2020 named "7 Memories" with my team for the theme 'Repair'. Inspiration for the game involved exploring mental health, memories and the theme to bring out this as a journey to repair memories as a game mechanic. 

Game Premise

You are in coma! You have to relive memories of your life, stitch them together to get a chance revive yourself. Fight time and emotions to bring back your life, piece-by-piece, through your memories, to bring back yourself and live on.

Genre: First person,Simulation
Engine: Unity
Team Size: 4
Duration: 48 hours
Platform: PC

Role and Responsibilities

Concept and Ideation
Level Design
Narrative Design
Programming

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Card game for Mental Health Patients

This is a Social Skills Training card game for Schizophrenic patients inspired by Uno and Dumb Charades. This was based on design research and interviews with psychologists and doctors at various mental health institutions like National Institute of Mental Health And Neuro Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Kolkata and Mano Chetana Clinic, Bengaluru.

Genre: Card game,Simulation
Team Size: 4
Duration: 1 month

Role and Responsibilities

Concept and Ideation
Field Research
Design Research
Game Design

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Space Debris Shooter

This game was a submission to the Semester 2 exam in Year 1 at the Institute based on the themes of waste management and environment.

Game Premise

We are nearly Type 1.5 civilization and man is about to conquer its entire solar system. We humans have been very lazy to control our waste and pollution in the name of progress and what if, nothing stops us from continuing that in space. Space junk or debris is all flying around the space in our Earth’s orbit. We might end up polluting this as well.

Genre: First person shooter, Simulation, Space fantasy   
Team Size: 1 (Solo)
Duration: 10days
Platform: PC

Role and Responsibilities

Concept and Ideation
Game Design
Programming

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Crystal Snow World

This is a twine game with heavy emphasis on user choices, as submission to my Narrative Design class. The story is about a doll trapped in a snowball and her journey through the outer world made by humans after she discovers it. The game has explicit pauses to allow the player to read the text and feel its emotions. Please wait till the page changes or selection options appear.

Genre: Text Based   
Team Size: 1 (Solo)
Duration: 2days
Platform: PC

Role and Responsibilities

Concept and Ideation
Narrative Design

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Climb game

This is a game where I explore the swing mechanic and 3D platforming, the game was made under a deadline of a week.

Genre: 3D platforming   
Team Size: 1 (Solo)
Duration: 5days
Platform: PC

Role and Responsibilities

Concept and Ideation
Game Design
Programming

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OverDrive (Kinect based game)

This is the first game I ever created. The year was 2013 and Xbox Kinect had just come out. With my tie up with Microsoft as their Student Partner, I had access to the Kinect hardware and presented an earlier game with motion control as a part of my final year undergrad project. The link leads to a long game project document.

Genre: Car racing, Simuation, Motion tracking, Kinect based   
Team Size: 1 (Solo)
Duration: 6 months, 2012-2013
Platform: PC

Role and Responsibilities

Concept and Ideation
Programming

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Project Micron

This is a game pitch/concept with narrative where a drone, from Earth, crash lands on to an alien planet where the life form is based out of wood. A family on this wood planet meets this drone and unfurls a series of events through the game. This game also explores a newer way of using camera as a game mechanic.

Genre: 2.5 Side scrolling, Top Down, Over the shoulder view, puzzle   
Team Size: 1 (Solo)
Duration: 2days
Platform: PC

Role and Responsibilities

Concept and Ideation
Narrative Design

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Jack The Ripper

This a board game with the Medieval setting on Scotland Yard but me with a bunch of friends have made a new game called Jack The Ripper. The rules of this game are available below.

Genre: Board Game, Strategy   
Team Size: 4
Duration: 2days

Role and Responsibilities

Concept and Ideation
Narrative Design
Game Design
Play-testing

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