Théodore PELLUARD
LUST
As the technical lead on Lust, I had to teach myself how to use Unreal Engine 4. I also needed to learn how to manage a team of this size—it was the largest team project I had worked on at that point, 6 people for over 1 year.
I developed new production pipelines and implemented them with the team.
Overall, it was an incredibly educational experience!
Lust is a narrative game telling the story of a woman, Marie, and the moral pressure she experiences at work, harassed by her boss, Mr André Morhange, during the 1950s.
WALKTHROUGH
On Lust, I aslo handled both the Game and the Level Design.
We had to come up with interesting mechanics to encourage players to explore the apartement and interact with all the available elements, while also advancing the narraitve.
We iterated on the story multiple times before settling on the final version. Fortunately, Unreal Engine was really easy to work with and I was able to take apart and rebuild various game systems several times without much effort.
For its final version, the story first unfolds in the office of our two protagonists, Marie and André, then continues in the apartement of our heroine where we had to balance the realism of a 1950's Parisian apartement with the needs of our gameplay and storytelling.
For this story to unfold accross different levels, some programming was required - a task a did myself by learning Unreal Engine's visual scripting system, Blueprints. It was a great discovery and I loved it !
Thanks to this discovery I was able to create a system to manage our dialogues and tools to improve the level design creation.
For the game's music, we had the honor to work with different composers and sound designers. With Yann Imbert from the Annecy Regional Conservatory and Nikita Poilleve from the Paris National Conservatory, we developed various pieces of music to enhance the game's atmosphere.
For the sound design, in addition to the integration work, I had the opportunity to collaborate one more time with Yann Imbert to create various sound effects, making the world of Lust feel even more alive.