My Designs: Rival Stars: Horse Racing

Rival Stars: Horse Racing is a realistic horse-riding live service game, featuring multiple real-life equestrian sports like Steeplechase and Flat Racing, with an in-depth breeding system that allows inheritance of both performance stats and cosmetic traits

Below are images from the game, as a user would experience it.

Areas I worked on are described in the slides below.

Complete Stat Rework

Simplified stats for easier reading and more accurate results and expanded the list of available results, removing the need for complex player made stat charts and increasing the visual variety of horses, receiving community wide praise

Event Roster Updates

Created new templates for long term engagement events, a foundational template still used as the basis of events made to this day on the project.

Racing Rebalance

Adjusted bots for racing modes across the entire game to address the power creep caused by new player-accessible boosts over several years of development, while still maintaining player empowerment.

Additional Skills

Excel & Sheets

Extensive use of CSVs across multiple projects has enabled me to become highly proficient with the design, development, and management of balancing sheets with thousands of lines and entries.

I am also proficient in designing and implementing functions and Apps Script to make usable, useful, understandable, and efficient in-game worksheets.

Engine Proficiency

My work has primarily been involved in designing and working with the Unity engine, and I have in-depth knowledge and understanding of this engine, and its mechanics and quirks.

I can design, scope, build and deploy in Unity to create working prototypes of concepts. I am also familiar with Unreal and Godot and have developed functional systems in these engines, and with a software engineering degree I have the skills and expertise to develop both C# and C++ code complete systems.

Production & Live Ops

I am experienced across the entire games production cycle, having worked on pre-production, production, and live operations for multiple years.

I am comfortable taking charge of GDD creation, running team-wide brainstorming sessions, sprints, managing feedback sessions, and maintaining live-ops scheduling.

I am also familiar with full-stack development and have designed and built complete systems utilising Node.js, Mongo, JS and HTML5.

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Rory More

Game Designer

Experienced game designer with hands-on experience in all facets of game design.

From concept to pre-production, launch and beyond.