{"id":118,"date":"2025-10-22T13:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrcolin.com\/blog\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2025-10-27T10:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:01:52","slug":"fera","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrcolin.com\/blog\/fera\/","title":{"rendered":"Fera: The Sundered Tribes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fera: The Sundered Tribes LAUNCH TRAILER\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KPROpl28BOg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-0f993aa0 wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Studio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-5e2576f9 wp-block-paragraph\">Massive Damage Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Release Date:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">September 17, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dev Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 Years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Platforms:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Engine:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unreal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-5e2576f9 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Credit:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Design Director<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Link to Play<\/h2>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/widget\/2469200\/\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"646\" height=\"190\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Fera: The Sundered Tribes<\/em> is a monster hunting, village building, tribe managing, online co-op third-person action game, where players zip around with their grapple beam and soar through the skies with their glider wings. <br><br>This is an ambitious game, and unfortunately, was forced to release in an incomplete state. It was heart-breaking for all involved, but I think there&#8217;s still a lot to enjoy about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Roles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As &#8220;Design Director&#8221; my assignment was to handle all the non-combat systems: village building, villager rescue, tribe management, monster tracking, monster harvesting, player progression, level design, world population and quest design. My work for each of these roughly went through this process:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Take assigned game designs and mechanics and develop them in the detail required to be built by programmers and artists<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lead the prototyping\/white-boxing of designs to evaluate their suitability and potential for full development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use Unreal blueprinting and internal tools to assemble the player experience<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lead and mentor the design team, providing guidance on their daily tasks, and ensuring that all aspects of the game are delivered on time, and to the specified standards of quality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Studio: Massive Damage Inc. 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