Just Dance 2024 edition
Date
2023 : 10 months
ROLES
Level Designer
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Level designers are own playability, signs and feedback, balancing and fun of maps
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Rehearsals & Filming
Guaranteeing a map's difficulty, playability, visibility and readability
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Difficulty :
Identify the diffculty levers to give feedback to the choreographic directors.
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Playability :
Report technical issues relating to scoring on our different scoring platforms: Switch, PS5 and XSX (joycons & Mobile).
Set technical limits for choreographic directors: execution, timing, dynamics, none scoring moves etc...
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Visibility :
Ensure that the choreography remains comprehensible from start to finish.
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Readability :
Respect movement execution and timing so players can identify loops and understand repetitve steps and timing
Scoring & Balancing (3C + Feedback) :
Design gold moves and challenges early on to create the best player experience.
Using Just Dance home made softwares to cut & balance a map into "moves" which will be in-game scoreable units.
Balance "moves" instances to make them fair regarding of players performance
Guarantee top scores on all maps whatever the map difficulty
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Pictogramms (Signs) :
Design Pictogramms
Iterate with UI Art
Put picto on timeline
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Feedback :
How move cutting can impact the understanding on how improve the global score
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Playtests :
Through PreProd process to ensure playability
Through Production process to ensure the best balancing and sign & feedback
Scope​
Just Dance + content (Live) : 11 maps
Just Dance 2024 Edition : 6 maps with 2 Extreme vers.
Owned maps - JD 2024 edition
Interesting facts
Y2K Season of Just Dance
Marching Band and Steppin danse style showcased
Interesting Challenges :
Collaborate with Choreo directors and Video artists to keep playability and fun as we have small space for the main coach and back dancers.
Be extra precise as the moves can be not readable
Keep the coordination between back dancers and original coach as they were filmed separately
Wasabi EXTREME - Little Mix
Interesting facts
First Extreme Duo on Just Dance
Interesting Challenges :
Pre prod process were very quick
Extreme Duo is hard to follow in rehearsals and on the shooting stage
Combine two very different dancers on the same map
Pictograms were had as it's a duo we don't have much space
Also, Extreme is hard to deconstruct as there is a lot of moves
Find the good balancing between show information but not loose people
Don't Cha EXTREME - Pussycat Dolls
Interesting facts
Some gold moves take place in the background in addition to the usual VFX
Bring back the old Just Dance vibe
Interesting Challenges :
First Extreme as a Level Designer
5 min full out map
A lot of iteration to find to good balancing regarding gold moves in the bridge to match old Just Dance vibes by having a lot of gold moves, but not too much so the map difficulty remains on the entire 5 min and not only the bridge.
Canned Heat - Jamiroquai
Interesting facts
Agent - D is back in Just Dance
Showcasing Rework of old Britney costumes with new Just Dance creative vision
First scoring of Just Dance 2024 as a Level Designer
Interesting facts
Agent - D is back in Just Dance
Showcasing Rework of old Britney costumes with new Just Dance creative vision
First scoring of Just Dance 2024 as a Level Designer
Interesting facts
Agent - D is back in Just Dance
Showcasing Rework of old Britney costumes with new Just Dance creative vision
First scoring of Just Dance 2024 as a Level Designer
Interesting facts
Wanderlust, one of our main protagonist, shows his palace and how he travels through Danceverses.
We can see him having fun with other protagonists
Interesting Challenges :
An excellent communication between Level Designers and Video Artist to have rotating camera/background and a not confusing environement for players
Never Be Like You -
Interesting facts
Mihaly, one of our main protagonist, none Binary coach,
enters their mind temple to elevate as a Panda Spirit which is the highest state of concentration.
At this point, they are no longer a fan of Night Swan as she is turned bad as the antagonist
Interesting Challenges :
Coordinate two dancers on one map for the same character.
Anticipate costume movement readability for the bridge.
A lot of visibility issues sovled for posing
Gimme More - Britney Spears
Interesting facts
Agent - D is back in Just Dance
Showcasing Rework of old Britney costumes with new Just Dance creative vision
First scoring of Just Dance 2024 as a Level Designer
Interesting Challenges :
Multiples costumes, Several days of shooting, Different energy for same structures
Take in charge scoring whereas I have not done the Rehearsals or shooting
A Queda- Gloria Groove
Interesting facts
Coach is a None Binary character
Welcome players in their freak palace
Associate freak tone with Just Dance Art Direction
Interesting Challenges :
Costume were super challenging, we had to iterate a lot on it, especially the hat to have the perfect balance between playability and visual appeal
All rehearsals with costume constraints
Space management as we have a lot of movements but still needs to come back on place (centered)