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Disney's Toontown Online

You can click on the image to the right to go to the game's website.

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I interned at Disney's VR Studio over the summer of 2006.

 

While there, I had an amazing time and was absolutely thrilled with just how receptive the team was allowing me to work on what interested me.

 

During my internship, I integrated the sound gag assets into combat, added the confetti ball celebration, participated in a bunch of design discussions, and pitched new minigame ideas and got to prototype one of them.

 

The minigame I designed and prototyped was the Treasure Dive game (inspired by my love of the various funny fish in the game).

 

I had about finished it up by the time I left the internship to go back to school. Unfortunately, while the prototype showed the game had promise, not a lot of time was taken balancing it out for the kids. As it stands, it's one of the more challenging of the mini games.


Image taken from one of the Toontown strategy websites.