- Release: January 29th, 2019
- Publisher: Square Enix Co., Ltd.
- Platform: PS4, Xbox One
- Genre: Action RPG
- Team: Business Division 3 (200+ people)
- Period: May 2018 – January 2019
- My Role: R&D Engineer
- Experimental builds
- Graphics reduction
- Middleware removal
Kingdom Hearts III is the third mainline title in a collaboration between Disney and Square Enix. In the game, players go on an adventure through popular Disney worlds such as Frozen, Tangled, and Monsters Inc.
I worked on a solo R&D project for the game, involving various modifications and experimental builds of the Toy Story demo, which was playable in the E3 2018 and Gamescom 2018 public events.
The research project was used to successfully pitch and greenlit a new game project.
Below is a video of the Toy Story E3 2018 / Gamescom 2018 playable demo. This was the state of the game before any modifications from my research project, but because it served as the basis for my research project, both games play out in the exact same way:
