CLARA LABORDERIE

Rootkit is a single player, first- person game in which players must escape from AVA , an entity acting as the antivirus of the system into which the character has entered.

The game takes place in a picturesque little French village rebuilt online by SOLK Simulation, a multinational company with questionable ethics that is now expanding into virtual reality.

As one of the two people who conceived the initial game concept, I assumed a project lead position during the development. Therefore I was responsible for project management and team coordination.

And about the game design and development parts I've took car of creating the gameplay mechanics and crafted them into the engine using visual scripting.

The project was made by a team of five people (two game artists and three game designers) in just under three months .

It was a real challenge for the team since some of the members could not work full time on the project because of their internships.

Moreover, as any student project we had encountered numerous difficulties during development, and had to readjust the project several times , reduce its scope and change our workflow in order to offer the best possible result within the given deadlines.

A successful gamble since Rootkit was awarded the jury prize in both Game Design and Game Art category during the presentation of the student projects at our graduation, a real of pride for the whole team.

In Rootkit, discover Solk, a gigantic multinational corporation that has the world at its feet, and whose entertainment branch embarked on the creation of virtual worlds to conquer a new market.

The hacker DionysosSoupe32 , aware of the terrible working conditions that the company inflicts on its employees and the shady handling of users data , infiltrated their network via the Rootkit program, embodied by the players, to retrieve some proofs.

As you were about to leave the system with all needed proofs, AVA spotted you and started to chase Rootkit, determined to the menace it represent.

Guided by Dionysos voice, Rootkit will have to cross the reconstruction of a typical small French village whose simulation is still a work in progress and reach the back door that will allow him to leave the system.

The Itch.io page for Rootkit is available below:

https://claratosaure.itch.io/rootkit