Just Golf

 Equipped with clubs and an assortment of weaponized golf balls, players fight in a chaotic 2v2 setting to score the most points.

Just Golf is a networked competitive team-based game where teams of two compete on a themed course. Players can use various ability balls to disrupt their opponents or use support-based balls to aid their teammate. Using 3 types of clubs, players maneuver through the course trying to score more points than the opposing team.

Development

I was onboarded to the team known as Wired Visions as a level designer during the my second semester senior year..

With other level designers, we were tasked with creating new levels for the game.

Originally, we were going to have two feature levels. Each one had a theme that characterize the environment and obstacles.

During the conceptualization stage, we came up with two themes.

The level that I planned featured a Mesozoic Era themed. It featured various hazards such as a stomping sauropod and lava flows. The concept was well received by the team and it was initially planned to make it into the game.

Unfortunately due to scope and time constraints, my level was cut so that our efforts could be focused on the already started underwater level.

The level terrain was created in Unity and the structures of the map were blocked out using the Probuilder tool.

We did this to get feedback on the planned level geometry as soon as possible.

A common misconception with the underwater level was that everyone outside the team thought it was actually meant to be underwater with the appropriate physics and the like. We quickly set out to make the level appear as manmade as possible.

We added many props such as physical entrances to the course, automated props, and many others to better contextualize the environment.

While my primary focus was dedicated toward level design tasks, I got the opportunity to stretch my writing muscles and write content for the game. I wrote the initial tutorial dialogue, many of the superlative badges and the descriptions for ability balls.