Real Steel Champions

Overview

Design approval with lead
- Preparing initial high concept documents & presentations to gain confidence of the stakeholders in the design pillars & vision
- Sitting with lead designer of Real Steel Franchise & Project Manager to identify & avoid decisions being stuck in communication loop.

Game flows, Wireframes & Documentation
- Capturing detailed feature list with PM
- Capturing all contents of each game screens to help visualize the game to the developers at the earliest
- Identify loop holes in design & flow.
- Understanding the flow & design from Player’s P.O.V. to ensure complex meta rules are grasped easily.

Extensive Communication with developers to resolve design queries, BUGs, guiding discussions, overcoming & understanding feature limitations

Best Practices
- Frequent discussion with Lead designer of Real Steel franchise to identify the best practices being followed by the F2P market. Such as the age old monetization systems of Chinese market, Alliance, League, Events & several Gacha based game systems.

Bug Fixes
- Leading design presentation & Q/A round with Q.A. team to solve design related queries or loopholes.
- Helping the Q.A. team to keep clear distinction between Design & Development bugs.
- Closing bugs based on priority.
- Verifying backend changes with Q.A.

Content Creation:
- Producing wireframes and even mockups for various game screens and popups.
- Unifying the game art vision with the artist, taking & giving direction from/to the artist.
- Covering each game screen, popup & loading screen.

Data & Metrics
- Breaking down KPI sheets into meaningful facts
- Laying down update plan based on KPIs along with Product leads and Development manager.
- Analyzing performance of the feature so that tweaks can be by the team from backend at the earliest.

Resolving any disputes along with the complete team related to design, production & timelines.
Personally producing task list or tracking sheets for respective departments to quickly communicate owners of tasks to each individual in the team; Tasks lists for Artist, Product Managers, Developers, Design, Marketing and Any miscellaneous 3rd party dependencies. This would provide clear visibility to the Development & Project Managers.
Arranging design presentations with QA so that bugs are identified & not raised during the development phase.
Owner of communicating all in game text to Localization Company and integration all localized text in game.
Communicating with 3rd party for Sound related requirements
Providing marketing department & community managers with game related content.

Working in Reliance Games has given me an open playground with a huge game “REAL STEEL CHAMPIONS” to play with.
Under the guidance of Joseph Alva who over sees the real steel franchise, I have been able to pitch and convert my thoughts into material form.
I personally gained a lot of depth and control over the project and avoided leaving any nook or cranny of the project unattended.
I had the opportunity to dip my hands deep down inside the project for which I am very fortunate. As I have been told by Josephf Alva – “Look at any game you work on like a HAWK. Be the all seeing eye! Go through everything and each feature with a fine tooth comb and leave no room for errors.”
Our team has managed to push the updates live at an accuracy of ±2 days for all the updated cycles I have worked upon. I sincerely thank Kunal Borhade (Project Manager) for his objective approach and vast knowledge of everything which falls under game development.
Ownership of various design related decisions was transferred by Josephf Alva to me.

The Outcome
- Real Steel Champions was featured organically on App Store in December,2015 as “The Best Game of 2015 from India”. This was a result of the major reskin update the team did to the existing game.

Last Update: 14/04/2016

Created by: Naman Jain

Last Update: 14/04/2015

Created by: Naman Jain