Occulthieves started in march 2022, as a 48h project for the 2022 Rubika Game Jam.

At the end of the jam, I was able to present the game to the other participants, which gave me a lot of feedback and made me want to continue the project.

The first challenge in continuing the project was to completely overhaul the game's visuals.

Given that I wasn't at all comfortable with 3D, I had to quickly learn blender and shadergraph in order to be able to produce the game's environments and VFX.

After organising playtests during production, I realised that the game wasn't working at macro level.

Thanks to the feedback from the playtests, I was able to make the decision to revise the way the games worked by offering shorter games that follow on from each other like rounds of a longer macro game.

With the intention of offering different playable environments with different game modes, the total number of different game maps is 21.

I therefore had to reduce the size of the maps to make it easier to iterate on them, while accommodating the shorter duration of the rounds.