Summary
Roosevelt Island Manhunt is a main mission DLC released for Warlords of New York. The assignment was to rework an existing mission to make it feel “like a new mission”. To this end I prototyped new gameplay ingredients, reworked pacing and layouts to give the feeling of revisiting old spaces in new ways. A new boss was created, based around the missions new gameplay ingredients.
It was developed on a very tight schedule and with little to no art support – a lot of the propping was done by level design. Roosevelt Island was the first manhunt mission released and was the benchmark for following seasons.