GEMINI
Introduction
GEMINI is a 2.5D puzzle platformer with a main feature of recall. The character has a clone that reproduces all that he does with a delay of 4 seconds.
This project was made in 10 days with a team of 8. And was supervised by Old Skull Game
Fact sheet
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Type : Puzzle / Platformer
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Theme : Mecha / Chibi
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Camera : 2.5D
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Number of player : Solo
My work
Intentions
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Level Design
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Block Out
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Game Design
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Use the valve method for puzzle game
My Process
Sketch / Layout
Block Out
Test
Finish
Define intentions and metrics
"The Valve method" for puzzle design
Inspired by the GDC talk about the puzzle design in Portal. I wanted to apply this method of puzzle-solving in this project.
What I have done first was to evaluate the difficulty to understand and use each feature, And at which moment we want to use it in the game.
"The difficulty of a puzzle cames from the number of steps to reproduce to complete it, the learning of new mechanics and the new application of existing mechanics"
So I set up a simple way to calculate these steps:
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Each step = 1
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A new mechanics = 2
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New application of a mechanics = 2
In orange, it's the new mechanics or the new application of an existing mechanics
In blue it's a step that the player has already use.
By using this method it was easier to measure the difficulty of each module and see how it will evolve as things progress.
GENERALITIES
DETAILS
Iteration