Game Portfolio -- Apocalypse Hero Tower Defense

Apocalypse Hero Tower Defense

• Release Date: December 2021
  
• Current Availability: Prototype cancelled June 2022
  
• Release Credit Category: Design Credit
  
• Company: WIMO Games
  
• Business Model: Free-to-Play
  
• Category: Mobile Game
  
• Genre: Tower Defense / Hero Collector

Personal Development Notes:

• Fun Fact: This was my first game prototype released as a senior designer for WIMO working with an outsourcing company.  As the story goes, when WIMO split from KingsIsle, we maintained many senior staff, but we also lacked the muscle to move on several projects at once.  To those ends, I was put in charge of overseeing the Design of this game by working with our outsourcing partners [x]cube Games.
  
  
• Job Highlights: For Apocalypse Hero Tower Defense, I worked closely with the Producer and Lead Designer at [x]cube games as well as our internal staff, reviewing all GDD documentation, providing feedback on a weekly basis, answering Design questions, and attending all coordination meetings. Each major milestone required a larger feedback review cycle.
  
  
• Best Memory: The developers at [x]cube are located in India, and I loved working with their team.  I would end the calls by casually talking with their Producer for a bit and counting a few numbers for her in Hindi. It was very interesting working around their holiday schedule and learning more about India in the process. 
  
  
• Other Comments: The characters for this game came from War Goonz and worked perfectly in a Tower Defense setting. The characters continued to perform well in advertising testing, but unfortunately, after two iterations of the game, it didn't create the sticky gameplay we were hoping for. We did, however, learn a lot about working with Outsourcing Companies along the way.

Sample Gameplay

The game had a surprising amount of content for a prototype, and I captured complete gameplay footage of the game from start to finish.