Description
Harry Potter Wizards Unite is a mobile Pokemon Go-like game made by Warner Bros San Francisco and Frima in Unity. The game showcases all the well-known characters from the franchise as well as iconic items, environments and spells brought to life with AR and geo-localisation features.
Will you help Harry, Ron and Hermione to stop the Calamity?
Tasks
- Reverse engineer and create new documentations about most of the features to have a better understanding of them.
- Constant communication with the client (Warner Bros. Games San Francisco) to confirm priorities and deadlines.
- Ownership of the new feature Lethal Adversaries (end-game combat), including balancing & playtesting.
- In charge for the complete change of values for the Sunset (ingredients, spawning weight, combat’s loot), as well as quality of life improvements (crafting time, resources needed for crafting).
- Data & assets integration coming from Excel into Unity for future events.
- Fixing bugs and closing tasks inside Jira, while pushing changelists with Perforce.
- Keeping an eye on game data (Quest completion %, X number of resources in-game spent, etc) to be aware of in-game behaviors.
- Collaboration with the QA Team to ensure a follow-up on tasks, issues and to gather different points of views.
- Scheduling playtests on certain design propositions to test and validate.
The results
With this project, I understood the reality of a LiveOps project with continuous updates based on in-game behaviours and monetization oriented design and the importance reaching client expectations about the IP.
Furthermore, I took more ownership and leadership within the team by communicating the road map, giving visibility on priorities and sharing clear and comprehensive goals for the remaining days of the game.
This experience was particularly motivating for the fact that I had the opportunity to have privileged contacts with the decision makers of the project.
