Introduction

This blog is for a Connected Games module, and it's an online multiplayer game developed by 3 designers and (including myself) 2 programmers. Prior to deciding what it looked like, long discussions were among the individuals about the game as the programmers made the suggestion of having the game consist of up to 6-8 players, and one of the designers, Roland Thomas, came up with the vision of letting the game be about collaboration with gathering resources for things such as tools where one of the players plays the role of an overseer, and I came up with an art style for it to be low-poly. His inspirations came from the following games:

• Chinese Whisperers 
• Satisfactory
• Dead of Winter
• And various zombie survival games

Alongside the everyday life of doing chores came the idea of a mining game where a finite set of roles and tools would be available to the players, and they would be divided among themselves. The mining area has a limited light source where the player has to gather resources/ores, which can be used to construct gears and structures alongside a hunger meter where consumables are vital for the players through foraging for ingredients to be cooked. The surface is the second area where resources can be examined for monetisation; tools may be modified or recreated, and ingredients can be found by foraging.

With that synopsis out of the way, here is the list of the team and their respective roles:

Designers:

• Roland Thomas – Gameplay Designer, Narrative, Scrum Master.
• Achitphon/Didi Rungchareonwikrai – UI Design, Internal Economy, Balancing, Game Design Document.
• Nana Baah (me) – Game's Logo Designer, 3D Character Modeller and Animator.

Programmers:

• Raghav Suriyashekar – Procedural Generation, Gameplay Mechanics and Systems.
• Marco Farace - Networking.

On my behalf, I'll take you through my contributions made on behalf of the design process and context (on some blog entries) of the:

• Level Design concept 
• Character Design
• Gear/Equipment Design
• Logo Design 

Let's begin!

References:

• Thomas, R. (2025). Profit pits design blog, Roland’s Portfolio. Available at: https://rthomasgames.wixsite.com/portfolio/post/profit-pits-design-blog (Accessed: 07 May 2025).

• Rungchareonwikrai, D. (2025). Blog , Trello. Available at: https://trello.com/b/MjG2LFLI/blog (Accessed: 07 May 2025).

• Farace, M. (2025) blog. Available at: requieem.github.io/#blog (Accessed: 07 May 2025).

• Suriyashekar, R. (2025). Developing profit pits, K2314767 - CI7825 - Connected Games Blog. Available at: https://thetrippp.github.io/ConnectedGamesBlog/connectedGamesBlog.html (Accessed: 06 May 2025).