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Emmi Kärnä

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PC game: Their home

When

Ongoing since January 2020, finishing/publishing time unknown.

Where

Done in Unity, platforms PC. The game demo was made as a part of the Aalto University Game Design and Production master studies course.

What

Their home is a tiny, single-player open-world game, where you play in a mountain village as a small bird, whose aim is to help different villagers to combat their deep sadness. You do this by flying, singing and carrying objects, and thus affecting to the villagers’ lives. Eventually, Their home is a game about kindness.

My responsibilities

    • Narrative design
      • Structural story design, character design, day cycle planning, narrative documentation, dialogue and flavor text writing, world design, NPC loop documentation and implementation, marketing texts, storyboarding
    • Quest design
      • Quest design, quest documentation for the team, blocking
    • Game design
      • Game design for this game was done as a collaborative process, I was part of the game design team.

The Team

Other members of the team were: Markus Laattala (art, code), Inan Evin (code), Juhana Sarkki (environmental art), Konsta Polkutie (character art) and Lassi Vihko (sound design & music)

Work samples

    • Watch the gameplay trailer here
    • Read through my writing samples here.
    • Picture of day cycles plans
      Picture of the NPC day cycle loops.

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