Blight and Bloom; a Ronin’s Tale
‘Blight & Bloom: A Ronin’s Tale’ is a single-player game that blends roguelike features, puzzle-solving, and platforming. The storyline follows an exiled mushroom knight returning to confront a mysterious corruption spreading across the land. Gameplay emphasizes both combat strategy and puzzle interaction, complemented by themes of ecological crisis and personal redemption.
My primary roles in this project were as the level and environment designer and artist, and as the music and audio designer.
I built all level maps from beginning to end, which included greyboxing, landscaping and foliage, lighting and particle effects, environmental art and decoration, and sourcing asset packs. I also implemented some basic gameplay and narrative features using Blueprint Scripting.
I composed, recorded and edited the track ‘Hymn of her Highness’ appearing in Level 2 with production by Robert Logan and selected and edited the other tracks which feature in the project. I also wrote, recorded, edited and implemented the exposition voiceover in the introduction.
You can find a document detailing my individual contributions to this project here.
This project was built in Unreal Engine 5 for the Digital Studio Practice module at Kingston University.
Credits are as follows:
Producer - Roland Thomas
Level/Environmental Designer, Music Designer/composer - Lucy Rogerson
Principal Programmer - Marco Farace
Support Programmer - Saeed Basheer
Combat/Mechanics Designer, UI Designer - Ziyi Liao
GDD documenter, Audio SFX Designer - Bo Hu
Player Character 3D artist - Okikijesu Doyindada
Weapons 3D artist - Nithyl Mohanasundaram
The report document for this project can be found here.
The game itself will soon be available for download on my itch.io page.
My primary roles in this project were as the level and environment designer and artist, and as the music and audio designer.
I built all level maps from beginning to end, which included greyboxing, landscaping and foliage, lighting and particle effects, environmental art and decoration, and sourcing asset packs.
I composed, recorded and edited the track ‘Hymn of her Highness’ appearing in Level 2 with production by Robert Logan. I also wrote, recorded, edited and implemented the exposition voiceover in the introduction.
You can find a document detailing my individual contributions to this project here.