Star Trek: Prodigy
Supernova

Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova is a narrative-driven action-adventure based on the animated series. The project focuses on cooperative gameplay, accessible puzzle-solving and exploration designed for a younger audience while maintaining the structure and pacing of a full adventure title.

My role involved transforming narrative concepts into playable spaces, ensuring consistent pace and flow. Primary focus was environment architecture — designing layouts that intuitively guide the player through the diverse planets of Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova.

• Full Development Cycle: Managed the process from initial greybox blockouts to final implementation, collaborating closely with Environment Artists to maintain visual fidelity without compromising gameplay.
• Combat Arena Design: Worked alongside the Combat Designer to create spaces tailored to encounter requirements — cover placement, lines of sight and navigation zones.
• Technical Implementation: Utilized Blueprints to bring levels to life, scripting world events, camera systems and logical triggers for a fluid and reactive player experience.
• Economy & Metrics: Balanced the distribution of collectibles and resources, and defined achievement metrics to ensure exploration felt consistently rewarding.

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Puzzle design was a core pillar for encouraging cooperation between the protagonists. My goal was to create challenges that integrated each character's unique abilities with the environment, using clear logic and a rewarding difficulty progression.

• Cooperative Mechanics: Designed and prototyped puzzles that require coordinated interaction between characters, leveraging their gadgets and abilities to unlock paths or activate systems.
• Difficulty Curve & Pacing: Oversaw the progression of challenges, ensuring new mechanics were introduced organically before combining them into complex multi-layered puzzles.
• Narrative & Child-Friendly Design: Integrated puzzles into the Star Trek lore while maintaining focus on a younger audience — intuitive, frictionless challenges that avoid unnecessary backtracking.
• Secret Layers & Two-Stage Puzzles: Implemented a "second-phase" design where completing an optional secondary objective unlocks hidden puzzles, rewarding exploration without blocking main path progress.

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Beyond standard mechanics, I was responsible for the technical execution and logical structuring of the game's temporal final challenges — translating complex time-travel concepts into functional gameplay.

• Temporal Causality & Technical Implementation: Engineered the game's most advanced puzzles — time-manipulation mechanics where actions in the past dynamically alter the future, requiring high technical complexity to manage state changes across timelines.
• Cross-Era Environmental Logic: Managed the complex environmental scripting to sync different versions of the same level, ensuring objects moved or destroyed in the past correctly triggered state changes in the future.
• Advanced Problem-Solving & Edge-Case Testing: Focused on identifying and resolving potential logic breaks, refining the interaction between timelines to prevent dead ends and ensure a satisfying eureka moment.

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I utilized Unreal Engine Blueprints to implement functional gameplay elements and complex interactive systems, developing production-ready scripts for specific mechanics and level-wide challenges.

• Production-Ready Blueprint Implementation: Developed bespoke visual scripting solutions for specialized puzzle elements, integrated directly into the final release.
• Heavy Battery Transport System: Programmed the complete logic for a mobile cart system used to carry a large-scale battery across the level, scripting the vehicle's movement and its interaction with the environment.
• System Balancing & Refinement: Designed Blueprints with a modular approach, allowing precise adjustment of variables like movement speed and interaction thresholds without external technical support.

TDD — Technical Design Document

* This code snippet is an illustrative representation of the TDD and may differ from the original technical specifications.

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Blueprint Scripting

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I was responsible for designing and balancing the game's entire economy system, utilizing external modeling to simulate financial progression before implementation.

• Economy Modeling & Data Management: Designed the complete value structure in Excel, creating a predictive model to identify and fix balancing errors before moving into Unreal Engine.
• Resource Distribution & Loot Balancing: Implemented and tuned the placement of all minerals throughout the levels, defining the exact resource yield for every breakable object and combat encounter.
• Pricing & Progression Systems: Executed the full implementation of prices for all in-game items, balancing upgrade costs against the player's earning capacity.
• Combat & Breakable Yield Optimization: Refined loot tables for enemies and environmental elements to ensure resource distribution aligned with the difficulty curve.

In-Game Economy

An analysis of the design decisions behind Planet 3 - Level 3, focusing on how the environment's architecture dictates the player's experience.

• Subverting Expectations: Unlike other planet finales, this level presents the challenge of being unable to enter through the main gate, forcing a shift in mindset and encouraging creative problem-solving.
• Organic Discovery: Use of paths hidden in plain sight — subtle environmental cues guide the player without diminishing the sense of exploration or the eureka moment.
• Pacing Management: The flow balances moments of observation and calm with peaks of activity, ensuring a smooth transition toward the final objective while maintaining constant engagement.

Design Sketches

Area Showcase — Planet 3 · Level 3 · Area 1

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