Mythical Odyssey

Existing game modes were linear in approach and offered little meaningful decision-making.

• Designed a structured node-based progression map where players choose paths between battles, events and rewards.
• Built the level design to position clear routes that are risky but high reward against routes that are safe but lower reward, encouraging players to make strategic and meaningful choices.
• Ran internal testing trials and gathered feedback to balance the pacing and decision density of the experience.

Base combat lacked strategic depth, because character builds were static.

• Implemented temporary modifiers, "Remnants", that stack and synergise with the player's team across a run.
• Designed Remnant pools across offensive, defensive and utility categories.
• Gave each Remnant up to three increasing rarity tiers, to scale excitement across a run.
• Added "Buffs", one-time effect modifiers that further aid a player in battle.

Manually crafting and balancing content for every player level would take far too long to complete.

Used a "Reflection" method to sustainably manage hand-crafted difficulty content across all player levels.

• Retrieves the latest combat power and applies stat multipliers to raise or lower each node's intended enemy battle power and difficulty, scaling to the player.
• Retrieves team compositions from PVP modes, so the content reflects the popular meta and the equipment actually available to players at each ranking.

The mode lacked social and competitive components.

Added a ranking system that rewards strategy and showcases player capability.

• Rankings reset weekly, while points accumulate daily, to reward consistent daily participation.
• Because the difficulty system gives players of any level a similar starting line, the point system instead measures turns taken in battle and difficulty tier cleared, which differentiates capability rather than account age.

• Increased active engagement time compared with passive idle modes.
• Created a high-replayability loop while reducing the volume of hand-crafted content required.
• Introduced strategic depth into a largely automated combat system.
• Remains a core recurring mode that complements the main progression loop.

The previous design used a fixed daily boss rotation, with one boss type available per day. That tied artifact types to specific days, produced uniform progression across the whole player base, and left very little flexibility in farming.

Redesigned the mode into a node-based structure with randomly selected bosses. Each node respawns on an hourly timer, so players can take multiple battles per session while clearly tracking remaining attempts. Overall availability was adjusted to an eight-hour daily window, to better match play patterns and session planning.

The existing gear system lacked depth, long-term goals and player agency. Progression was overly linear and excess artifacts had little utility. Players had minimal control over gear optimisation, which reduced build diversity and strategic engagement.

Refined the existing system to focus on clarity and usability within the broader equipment ecosystem, and to support a player-driven economy, working with a co-designer responsible for economy balancing.

• Restructured the stats system to improve utility.
• Introduced two additional progression paths, Ascension and Refinement.

The original approach kept a consumption-based model: players refined a main artifact by consuming a secondary one to reroll sub-stats, with a chance to transfer desirable stats across. It was intended to create a sink for excess artifacts while allowing some targeted optimisation.

• Low clarity in how stat transfer actually worked.
• Perceived lack of control, because outcomes felt overly random despite player intent.

Redesigned so players lock the sub-stats they want and reroll only the unwanted ones.

• Gives direct control over outcomes.
• Reduces reliance on opaque randomness.
• Makes the system more intuitive and more predictable.