Reverie: Co-op Video Game
Sound Design, Music Composition, Programming, Game Design, Level Design, Character Design
Unreal Engine 5 | Ableton | Audacity | Procreate
Game created as a final project for my multimedia program. In collaboration with class colleagues, we created Rêverie (Daydream), a coop platforming game. The players embody Cori and Asche, two puppets lost in a magical DIY world. They must solve puzzles and use each others strenghts, as well as collaboration, to get to the end of their adventure. I mainly contributed to the project with sound design, music production, game design, level design, game mechanic programming and character design.
Trailer made by Hamza Akbar
Credits to Viki Nevzorova, Hamza Akbar and Adam Nasr for their contribution to the creation of the game
Menu and instructions in French
Music and Sound Design
I’ve worked with Ableton and Adobe Audition to create the OST and the soundscape of this project. Three tracks were created — two for the levels and one for the menu — that were loopable, ambient and playful with a dreamy aspect. All the voices for the characters were self-recorded and modified to fit with each character.
Dozing off
Menu Soundtrack
Slowly Building Up
First Level Soundtrack
New Journey Ahead
Second Level Soundtrack
Programming
All was programmed in UE5’s Blueprint. I’ve mainly helped with the creation of the link connecting the characters (distance, pulling, joining in the middle), and the throwing and aiming mechanic. I’ve also integrated a throwable object and programmed gameplay elements such as platforms that move or disappear.
Character design
We wanted silly, simple characters that would fit their skills (specific mechanics). We landed on a brains and brawn dynamic: Asche would be agile guide and Cori would be strong and heavy. I made them with contrasting colours and shapes that would best represent their abilities.
Both are named after scientists: Gerty Cori, a biochemist who discovered how glucose is metabolized by the body, and the first woman to have won a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, and Marion Asche, a physicist known for her work and discoveries in solid-state physics and semiconductor physics.
Cori and Asche concept art
Final 3D characters by Adam Nasr