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Cars 2 the Video Game

Platform:  PS3, XBox 360, Wii

Tools: Maya, Proprietary Level Design Tool similar to Kismet

Duration: 4 months

Team Size: Attack Mode - 6; Survival Mode - 6;  Cars 2 Team - 60

Role: Lead Designer - Attack and Survival Mode

Metacritic: 74

Gamerankings: 76

After finishing work on Epic Mickey, I jumped onto the Cars 2 team to help finish the game in the last 4 months of production. My tasks were to head up the design and production of both the Survival and Attack gameplay modes. Up until this point, there was paper design and a prototype. But further design, prototyping and tech were needed to finish the modes and to make them fun.

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Survival Mode required skilled driving and taught the player the ins and outs of a track.
Survival Mode required skilled driving and taught the player the ins and outs of a track.

Survival pitted the player against a diminishing shield that, when depleted would result in the player being destroyed by a laser beamed down from above. Therefore, the player was asked to follow specific lines along a track to collect batteries to power that shield. This mode was designed to:

- Push on mastery of racing skills such as drifting.

- Push on management of Turbo, and the best time to use it. 

- Teach the player about secret routes on any given track. 

- Create a sense of tension that makes the player feel pressure. 

“Cars 2 is a great multiplayer game that rivals Mario Kart...Under all the Pixar beauty is an extremely fun game.”
— ign.com
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Attack mode asked for awareness and weapons skills.
Attack mode asked for awareness and weapons skills.

Attack Mode tasked the player to rack up as many defeats of "lemon" cars as possible that appeared in front of the player on the track, within a time limit. Each lemon destroyed resulted in time added to the timer. 

This mode was designed to:

- Push on maximizing weapon use.

- Push on environmental awareness. 

- Push on skilled driving.

Both modes were successful in being fun in their own way, successfully pushing on the correct gameplay features and offering up variety for the player during the campaign. 

Cars 2 Video Review

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