Broken Roads

Broken Roads is a narrative-driven RPG for PC and Console.

We were responsible for development of Broken Roads from June 2019 to December 2021.

Jacques, as the Technical Lead, had the following responsibilities:

• All software development at Drop Bear Bytes, creating Broken Roads RPG
• Solution Architecture for Broken Roads solution, which included Articy Draft 3, an Angular Web App (CMS), NodeJS Automation, Bash Automation and Unity project for the game itself
• Articy Draft 3

  • Implementation of custom fragments, from data design to implementation in Unity/C#
  • Created custom Articy Draft 3 Plugins using C#/WPF

• Angular 9 WebApp

  • Inhouse custom tool, which was used as a CMS for the game items, characters, POI, locations, etc..
  • I did the Software Architecture and development of the SPA using Angular, Firebase, NodeJS, Leaflet

• NodeJS and Bash Automation

  • Source control automation and Content automation tools

• Unity and C#

  • Design and development of all systems and modules in the game, from Gameplay, UI, Persistence, AI, Dialogue, Quests, Characters, Editor Tools, to name just a few.
  • Provide Unity technical support and training for the team

• Provided technical support to Level designers, narrative team, and content team
• Provided source control support and training to the entire team
• Created and maintained technical standards, documents, and diagrams.
• Created hand-over technical documents for Team17 and The Knights of Unity

Melanie, as the Level Assembler, had the following responsibilities:

• Level Assembly of various scenes in Unity
• Implementing game features
• Documentation of manuals