Intro

• Thanks a ton for setting aside the time to do this challenge with us! We know your time is valuable and we really appreciate you taking the time to do it.
• I hope this challenge will give you a flavor of what you’d do as part of the team at Rune.
• You have 5 hours to submit the challenge. Send an email with your solution to [email protected]. Please do NOT use Drive / Dropbox links. Instead, please attach the files directly in the email.
• This challenge is only used to help you understand the role better and for us to understand your fit with the role. We won’t use your challenge output outside the interviewing process.
• It’s deliberately a bit time-constrained so don’t worry if it gets a bit stressful 😅
• This challenge has two parts:
  1. Designing a Game Level in Unity
  2. Crafting an NPC persona

Part 1 — Designing a Game Level in Unity

• You should design a level for the upcoming MeatSuits game we’re making at Rune by tweaking an existing Unity demo scene full of assets (see below).

• Here’s some more info about the game, also mentioned during the interview:

  • Mobile game on iOS and Android including some low end devices
  • Gen Z players for most part
  • 3rd person view
  • Multiplayer - up to 6 players experience the world together
  • Players are expected to find and talk to NPCs
  • NPCs use AI to respond and hence need to be configured with a character definition
  • Players must convince NPCs to follow them to the goal area to win
  • Players have a shared experience of talking to NPCs - if one player is talking to an NPC then all players see that conversation

• Start from the Unity package below:

  SimpleOffice.unitypackage

  SimplePeopple.unitypackage

• You should enhance this demo scene to include:

  • A contained/restricted/bounded exploration area
  • Enough content around the exploration area to fill the scene in the distance
  • Remove any “noisy” assets in the demo scene not adding to the player experience
  • An open outside area where the UFO can come in to abduct any humans the aliens lure there
  • 5 NPCs to interact with (we’ll write one of their personas in part 2)

• The resulting level should fulfill these criteria:

  • Entertain and amuse the player
  • Provide opportunities for exploration and discovery
  • Have that “aha” factor where players see small details that bring joy
  • Support extension with more NPCs
  • Be easy to navigate with limited mobile controls

• Let’s focus on making the level design as detailed and discoverable as possible!

• You don’t need to spend time on:

  • Lighting
  • Effects
  • LODs

• At Rune we’re designing the levels in Unity and exporting them as FBX files to a custom game engine built on threejs. You thus cannot use any fancy features in Unity.

• For this task, provide in your email:

  1. The resulting Unity project
  2. Up to 500 characters of text describing why you made the level this way and why it fulfills the criteria mentioned above of fun, “aha” factor, etc.