Full Sail Game Design Portfolio

D-Rock's Game Design Portfolio

My name is Derek Allen Marunowski, but my friends call me "D-Rock". I have educated game development and design students for 11+ years at Full Sail University. While shaping the minds of future game-creative professionals, I have shipped several indie games, and worked on a number of unfinished projects. From concept and early design, to prototype and block-out, and then implementing gameplay elements and incorporating game feedback… I have a wide-range of skills to complete a multitude of game industry tasks.

Full Sail University – Game Studies

SCRAPS - Teaching by design!
Game Design (BS)
Game Development (BS)

SCRAPS - Teaching by design!

SCRAPS is a third-person adventure game that was developed to teach students the fundamentals of level design, designing with constraints, level mechanics vs game mechanics, and level pacing.

The original game was built in Unreal Development Kit. I helped port it to Unity in 2014, and have been a core developer / designer on the project since that day.

Students create a level, following a strict creative vision document, and take it from a level design document to a complete and playable experience in only three months. They design it in documents, create a top-down level map, prototype level mechanics, block it out in Unity, incorporate your mechanics, and polish it with final assets.

Player Input
UI Design and Input
Level Design
Systems Design
Version Maintenance (Keeping up to date with Unity's current version)
Prototyping
Tools: Unity, C#, Adobe Photoshop, Google Drive, Google Draw

Prototyping

SCRAPS is a game about using a gravnull (similar to Half-Life 2's gravity gun) to solve puzzles. There are no puzzles in the game… it is up to the students to create them! I teach through examples, and those examples are created during "experimentation" sessions on Campus.

Power Socket

Lift a power block with the gravnull and place it into a power socket.
"Powers" up other mechanical objects in a level.
Doors, Moving Platforms, Pistons, etc.
Removing the power block will power-down the linked mechanics.

Sticky Blocks

Lifted with gravnull and thrown at a wall.
Throw hard enough at a wall, and it will stick!
Sticks to the wall, creating a platform.
Wiggles rapidly (with sound), but slows down to show passage of time before becoming unstuck.

Rubber Ball Turret

Rotates back-and-forth to scan for a player.
Locks-on to it's target.
Fires rubber balls that knock the player backward.
Loses sight at a specific range, or from obstructed view.

Liquid Rubber Seal

Sparking electrical cables that deal damage.
Causes the player to be knocked around when "shocked".
Throw liquid rubber can at a wire to seal it!

Game Design (BS)

Game Design – Bachelor's of Science (Campus and Online)

Course Director – Level Design

Pitch, Prototype, Placeholders, Playable!
Tools: Unity, C#, Perforce, Discord

Course Director – Aesthetics and Immersion

Spatial Presence, Color Theory, and Shape Language.
Tools: Unity, C#, Adobe Photoshop

Course Director – Game Mechanics

Bottom-up vs Top-down Design Methodology, Form-Function Classification.
Tools: Unity, Microsoft Office Suite

Game Development (BS)

Game Development – Bachelor's of Science (Campus)

Lab Specialist – Art Director – Final Project Courses

Prioritizing asset delivery, pipeline troubleshooting, and creative vision control.
Tools: Hansoft, Perforce, Alien Brain, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Maya and Max.

CrazyRock Creative

Omega Hero
Fast Fast Food

Omega Hero

Omega Hero

Android OS, iOS, and soon for Steam (PC)

Omega Hero is a side scrolling 3D brawler. You take control of Omega Hero, a hero born to protect small businesses from large corporate takeovers, and battle the evil Dust Bunnies, hired goons controlled by the evil Mr. Boss.

Design Lead / Development Lead

Player Input and Enemy AI
Combat and Balancing
Level Design
UI Design
3D Modeling and Animation
VFX Artist
Tools: Unity, C#, ProBuilder, Unity Collaborate, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Maya and Max

Steam (PC) Under Development

Android OS, iOS

Fast Fast Food

Fast Fast Food

Android OS

You're working the counter for the lunch hour rush at a popular fast food restaurant. Customers know what they want, and they want it now. Don't mess up their orders or make them wait too long, or you'll be looking for a new place to work. Just another day in the world of "Fast Fast Food"!

Sprite Artist and Animator

Randomizable Customers and Employees
Guest Characters
Background
UI Elements
Tools: Unity, C#, Adobe Photoshop

Freelance

Megaman Remix

Megaman Remix

Megaman Remix

Play as Megaman (MM9 / MM10 style), and take on eight brand new robot masters in a completely randomized order, at the end of 30 screens, that are generated from 52 potential screens, randomly stuck together by our level generator. Listen to hand-selected music tracks from past Megaman games, implemented to play during similarly themed environments.

Design Lead / Development Lead

Player Input and Enemy AI
Random Level Generator
Re-Theme System (Level objects match the upcoming Robot Master (boss))
Level Design ("Screen" Design)
UI Design
Sprite Artist and Animation
Tools: Unity, C#, Unity Collaborate, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Maya and Max

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