DREAMALITY
ROLE
Level Designer
DESCRIPTION
Created as part of Global Game Jam 2022, Dreamality is a a stealth/puzzle game where the player must switch between a liminal dream and an overwhelming nightmare in order to navigate an abandoned mall.
LEVEL DESIGN
This project was a fun challenge to undertake as whilst me and the other designer were designing the levels we were still deciding on major features as a team. This let us have a lot of freedom in terms of mechanics we could leverage, however this 'choice paralysis' was tempered by the time constraints. It was also fun since we decided early on that each level would have 2 'dimensions', the dream and the nightmare, meaning we had do design two levels that were different enough that it was clear which world you were in, and to make the puzzles interesting, but similar enough that the player could comfortably estimate where they would reappear when they switched dimensions. We first worked on a whiteboard, to make it easier to look at the two worlds side-by-side allowing us to more easily make the puzzles work.
