ARTé: Paris – LIVE Lab Impressionism Art History Video Game – Game Designer – 2017

Arté Paris is a point and click RPG with minigames teaching about the Realism and Impressionism art movements.

screenshot of the Gare St. Lazare from the final game

I worked on the following:

• Narrative Designer
  • Researched Emile Zola.
  • Created overall plot structure and story beats.
  • Created character sheet documentation for the main character and Emile Zola.

snippet of a small branching dialogue path in part 1; about to introduce the minigame “Connections.”

Emile Zola game expressions

main character game expressions

the version of the lockpicking UI that I improved, adding the “check” button to encourage the player to answer the combination correctly and prevent brute forcing

• Underground Bridge – Rework
  • Modified the game’s context from standalone to have the underground act as a “fast travel” between the over world.
  • Redesigned main mechanics so the player turns floor panels with artworks
    • Artworks had been tied to certain floor panel designs, which left room for user error where players could choose the correct painting, but not construct their bridge properly. My modification remedied this.

proposing edits to the old underground bridge game

• Final Minigame – Initial Ideation and Concept that is Currently In-game
  • The player and competitive AI show images to a line of judges. Depending on multiple factors–the image’s contend, order in which they are displayed, and audience reaction–affects if the player has more artworks accepted into the Salon than other competitors.

“Charles X distributing awards to artists exhibiting at the Salon of 1824 at the Louvre,” 1827, Musée du Louvre, Paris. Heim, Francois-Joseph. Used as reference for the game.

ARTé: Lumiere was bought by Triseum and the final version is for sale on Triseum’s official website: https://triseum.com/arte-lumiere/