Eidolon: Fate of Fools

A multiplayer arena shooter designed to emulate the chaotic camaraderie of old-school LAN parties. Players wield 13 tarot-themed weapons across 4 arenas with bot support and Steam multiplayer.

We prototyped and iterated on core gameplay over a year, implementing hitscan and projectile weapon systems and tuning combat feel through frequent playtesting. I built VFX for firing, hit markers, death effects, and environmental hazards.

I integrated Steam platform features including match invites and avatars.

After the project was complete but before shipping, I worked on it for 3 months more on my own as an independent study. I planned to collect player feedback about match quality, make changes to the matchmaking system, and compare player feedback after the changes.

The process of building a live telemetry pipeline took up much more time than I expected; I hit multiple dead ends, but ended up shipping with a simple HTTPS POST to a PostgreSQL server. I hope to do more work with the data in the future.

94% positive reviews on Steam.