Portfolio
Darian Kletzander
Hi! My name is Darian and I'm an ongoing Gamedesigner from Germany. I enjoy working with people to create unique games and stories that challenge me. Below are some projects I have worked on.
Projects I worked on...
Like a Moth to a Light
Designer/ Unity Engine
In “Like a Moth to a Light” we play the child who turned into a moth in his dream and his companion the will-o'-the-wisp. Together they travel through the child's dream world, where they have to solve puzzles by working together. Players should experience a relaxing experience in a new, cute but strange world. This is preparing for winter, which will send the will-o'-the-wisp and the moth on their journey to warmer places. Together they travel through forests with mushrooms as big as trees, over mountains full of snow followed by flower meadows of various types and sizes, through forests with plants not quite from our world and over beaches with corals out of the water. As you travel through these locations, you collect elemental fragments to build elemental orbs that allow you to unlock new abilities. However, these abilities are different for both characters and players need to know how to use these abilities together. You can even combine the different elements to solve the puzzles and learn more about the world and story.
Genre: Adventure/ Puzzle
Target group: Socializer & Explorer
Engine: Unity
Teamsize: 9
Duration: 3 months
Platform: PC
Contribution
- correcting logic errors in Puzzles
- iterate the parameter after playtesting
- implementation of dialogue in Unity
- placing the boundaries of the Levels in Unity
- co-writing the Game Design Document
I need a game, PLEASE!
Teamlead/Designer/ Unity Engine
In this game you play as Suki the samurai girl in a new game designed by game design students. Suki knows that she is a character and can now play as the main character in a new game. But Suki doesn't know anything more about the game, except that it will be played at a school. And that's exactly the trick to this project. The player and Suki are still figuring out what kind of game it will become. Find items and interact cleverly with the world and your surroundings and see which direction the game develops.
Genre: Point n' Click/ Visual Novel
Target group: Explorer & Achiever
Engine: Unity
Teamsize: 8
Duration: 3 months
Platform: PC
Contribution
- schedule management and work distribution
- correcting logic errors between story and Level-Design
- game mechanics and balancing
- implementation of dialogue and character portraits in Unity
- co-writing the Game Design Document
- presenting the concept and pitching to people for the "Lange Nacht der Computerspiele" in Leipzig
The ever-changing Woods of Void
Solo-Developer/Designer/ Unity Engine
Level is randomly generated 256 tiles tall
Goal: Go to the Hopetile to get to the next level Controller vibration at intervals that gets stronger when you are close
reaching the edge of the forest means teleporting to the other side
Level is randomly generated 256 tiles tall
In this game you are a creature of the void, a being that feeds on creatures with hope. One day you eat a Voidwalker, a creature with hope, and take its place. As a Voidwalker, you receive sound attacks to defeat the other creatures of the void. The Goal is to survive and find hope. The unique thing about it is that it can be played without visual feedback and consists solely of sound and controller vibration.
Genre: Survival/ Horror
Target group: Explorer & Achiever
Engine: Unity
Teamsize: 1(Solo)
Duration: 3 months
Platform: PC
Contribution
- writing the Game Design Document
- creating 19 different Sounds
- a Prototype in Unity with whiteboxing
- iterate the parameter of Gameplay, Soundintensity and vibration after playtesting
- programming the Prototype (with great help from a programming buddy)
My Skills
- fluent in german and english
- a good understanding of everything included in Gamedesign (Leveldesign, Narrative Design, World Design, General Game Design, Gamification )
- Teamplayer
- good at coordinating between individuals
- Tools I am able to use are: Microsoft Office, Discord, Photoshop, Clipstudio Paint, Unity
About me
Ever since I was little I loved playing board games with people. But playing the same games over and over again became boring, so I would invent new rules for the games, or grab paper and pens and create my own. At the age of 6 something changed, I got my first video game console and my first video game New Super Mario Bros. DS and a Nintendo DSi. Interaction, animation and music at the same time was mind blowing for me. I wanted to play more games and see what made them special. This continued until others my age wanted to play more adult games instead of "children's games". Then I had to choose between children's games and adult games... well I took both. I didn't commit myself to a specific group, but rather I played whatever caught my eye. If I liked it, I played another one... or the whole series. But not only games but also the people behind the games intrigued me. Which ultimately led to me being educated in game design since 2021.