Home Sweet Home Episode 1 & 2

Overviews

Platform: PC (Steam)
Genre: Action Horror
Graphic: 3D
Players: 1 (Single Player)
Publisher: YGGDRAZIL GROUP CO., LTD
Developer: YGGDRAZIL GROUP CO., LTD
Years of Development: 2016 - 2017 (EP 1) / 2018 - 2019 (EP 2)

Home Sweet Home series is one of the most famous horror games in Thailand. The series includes the episode 1 and 2. Both episodes have been in the first place of the top-selling games on Steam at the week they were released.

Responsibilities

I worked as the main game designer in the development of both the first and second episodes.

My works include:

Gameplay

Mechanics in the games such as stealth, stealth-kill, hiding and peek.
All puzzles in the first episode and some puzzles in the second episode.
Controls.
Game flowchart.
UI (Worked with the UI designer).
Ghosts’ AI, state machine and animations (Worked with programmers and animators).
Level design:
- The first episode: Level design in overall and in detail, including stealth parts.
- The second episode: Level design in overall.

Story and In-game Narrative

Worked with the director and writer to write a plot, story, and dialog in the game.
Created story-telling items, documents and defined the places they appear.
Localization process.
Worked with the director to direct the voice actors in the dubbing process.

Documentation

Game design document.
Level design document.
Localization document.
Asset list: art asset, animation, sound asset, and text lists.

QA

Tested, fine-tuned and balanced the gameplay and levels in the first episode.
Collected and analyzed comments from the demographics as information for game improvement.

Overall

The first episode: Took responsible for almost all game design, level design and narrative work in the first episode as an only one designer in this project.
The second episode: Worked on a big picture of the game and focus on a narrative part.

Here are some examples of my documentation works.