Siyuan Xu

Director & Lead Designer - Gameplay, Combat & Level Design

Nine-person student team · Unity 6.2 / Corgi Engine

• Reduced scope by removing shooting and focusing combat on grappling towards enemies for close-range kills. Our nine-person team delivered a complete playable flow before the deadline.
• Led the final Unity rebuild using Corgi Engine, specifying and integrating grappling, kill recovery, dash charging, style ranks and adaptive music through an AI-assisted workflow.
• Built the tutorial and main level; testing with approximately six players informed changes to enemy placement, early combat pressure and safe learning spaces.

Final Level Integration, Sound & VFX

Three-person coursework team · Unity 6 / 2D URP

• Connected existing rooms and systems into the final playable route, removed repetitive puzzles and repaired backtracking failures. The initial systems and rooms were created by teammate Kun Lin.
• Defined a box respawn rule that preserves return routes within the current session, then verified the integrated implementation through death, reset and return traversal.

Game Design & Direction / Gameplay Implementation

Collaborative team project · Unity 2022.3

• Designed the salvage, crafting and ship-repair loop, linking progression to traversal tools and limited oxygen and propulsion resources.
• Defined physics-driven navigation and interactions around inertia, grappling and recoil, with credited collaboration across programming, system design, level design and UI.