Eden Isle: Resort Paradise

Summary

Eden Isle: Resort Paradise is a free-to-play sim building game that was the debut release of Dublin-based game development studio, Simteractive. The game is currently available on the App Store and Google Play store.

Gameplay

In Eden Isle: Resort Paradise, players build and manage a holiday resort. From building the optimal resort layout, maximising decor bonuses, monitoring the needs of individual guests and adjusting the prices and quality levels of their businesses to maximise profit.

Responsibilities

I worked on a variety of game design elements for the game such as game currency and resource balancing, basic mechanics and tutorial design. I also assisted in researching then current user needs and competitors, performed QA, worked with playtesters, analysed test results, created UI mockups and wrote some in-game narratives. The game was later nominated for Writers' Guild of Ireland ZeBBie Award for Best Game Script in 2018 of which I was also accredited for.

Experience

The internship allowed me to learn and experience the game development process within a professional environment. I was able to work with the programming and art team to implement the designs. I was able to experience the dynamics in a game development studio.