Florian Stoessel – Game Director & Senior Designer
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Genre: Strategic Puzzle Game
Platforms: PC (EA APR 2023).
TerraScape is a cozy City-Puzzler where you build gorgeous kingdoms by placing buildings strategically on idyllic floating islands. Discover secret combinations, explore random generated maps, different single- and multiplayer game modes, captivating challenges, and earn cool unlockables!
My role and biggest challenges
I was in charge of the Content, Level and System Design as well as Balancing for the project until early Access and close to full release.
- Created all 45+ Puzzle Levels. 16 scenarios and freeplay-maps and their Texts
- Created 12+ Weekly Challenge maps
- Improved procedual generation of levels
- Controlled randomness for generation and random elements
- Redesigned and created the Buildings Decks and all special cards to be historically fitting
- Designed the progression systems, quests, unlockables and weekly challenge system
- Organized all localization
Biggest Accomplishments
- Raised the rating from around 75% to 88% positive rating on Steam as first project of the company
- Getting featured by major outlets including Kotaku and a full cover and multi-page feature in the Game Star coining our game “Annoromantik” (mix of Anno-Series and Dorfromantik)
- Improving Retention and KPIs including return rate and improving the conversion rate of the store page
- Over 60k sales during EA, 100k+ on full launch month
- Won: Best Game, Best Game Design, Best Graphics & Best Music/Sound at the GermanDevDays 2024
