Nim
Role: Technical Level Designer
Development Time: 4 Weeks (2019)
Tools: Unreal Engine 4
Team: 12
Contributions:
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Tutorial Level
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Opening and End Cinematic
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Initial Prototype
About
Nim is a Third-Person Puzzle Platformer with a Hook and Tethering Mechanic where the player can Tether Physics based Objects together in conjunction with a Swing Mechanic in order to traverse the environment.
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Mechanics
Hook and Swing
Swing Across gaps.
The Player can Hook and Swing across gaps
The Player can Hook and Swing across gaps
The Player can Hook and Swing across gaps
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Hook and Tether
Tether certain objects to anything in the environment.
Hook and Tether certain objects to anything in the environment.
Hook and Tether certain objects to anything in the environment.
Hook and Tether certain objects to anything in the environment.
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Slow Motion
Slow Down Time to easier Hook while flying fast
Slow Time to easier Hook to objects
Slow Time to easier Hook to objects
Slow Time to easier Hook to objects
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Tutorial Level Design
Tutorial Level
Introduces the Mechanics and Components in ...
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Each Mechanic gets introduced and then re-iterated with an evolution to solidify the learning process. -
By keeping it linear, I could more easily predict where the player would look, which was crucial since it was decided that we had to use In-World Tutorial Prompts.
Tutorial Play Through
Complete Play through of the Entire game available Here
Overlooks the End Goal and the way the player has to traverse to get there.
Overlooks the End Goal and the way the player has to traverse to get there.
Overlooks the End Goal and the way the player has to traverse to get there.
Overlooks the End Goal and the way the player has to traverse to get there.
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Starting Area
The first obstacle the player gets to and ...
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The Hook point draws the player attention with Moving and Glowing fireflies. By looking at them they glow even stronger, giving the player feedback that they are interact-able.
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The Swing is later re-iterated but with an evolution with several points that has to be swung from in a row while in mid-air in combination with the Slow Motion Mechanic
The Vista
The goal of the cinematic was to first give a soft introduction to the World and ...
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I try to achieve the intro to the World by having it fade in from a Starry Sky before it slowly moves down into the forest and settles on a shot of the Secluded Tree where our Main Character is.
Overlooks the End Goal and the way the player has to traverse to get there.
Overlooks the End Goal and the way the player has to traverse to get there.
Overlooks the End Goal and the way the player has to traverse to get there.
Overlooks the End Goal and the way the player has to traverse to get there.
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Overlooks the End Goal and the way the player has to traverse to get there.
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Introduction to Swing
The first obstacle the player gets to and ...
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The Hook point draws the player attention with Moving and Glowing fireflies. By looking at them they glow even stronger, giving the player feedback that they are interact-able.
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The Swing is later re-iterated but with an evolution with several points that has to be swung from in a row while in mid-air in combination with the Slow Motion Mechanic
Introduction to Tethering
Introduces the Mechanics and Components in ...
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Each Mechanic gets introduced and then re-iterated with an evolution to solidify the learning process. -
By keeping it linear, I could more easily predict where the player would look, which was crucial since it was decided that we had to use In-World Tutorial Prompts.
Overlooks the End Goal and the way the player has to traverse to get there.
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Introduction to Slow-Motion
The goal of the cinematic was to first give a soft introduction to the World and ...
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I try to achieve the intro to the World by having it fade in from a Starry Sky before it slowly moves down into the forest and settles on a shot of the Secluded Tree where our Main Character is.
Ends with the Culmination of All Mechanics
The goal of the cinematic was to first give a soft introduction to the World and ...
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I try to achieve the intro to the World by having it fade in from a Starry Sky before it slowly moves down into the forest and settles on a shot of the Secluded Tree where our Main Character is.
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Cinematics
The Cinematics are made in Unreal Engine 4's Sequencer.
Opening Cinematic
The Intro to the World
The goal of the cinematic was to first give a soft introduction to the World and ...
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I try to achieve the intro to the World by having it fade in from a Starry Sky before it slowly moves down into the forest and settles on a shot of the Secluded Tree where our Main Character is.
The Intro to the Character
The first obstacle the player gets to and ...
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The Hook point draws the player attention with Moving and Glowing fireflies. By looking at them they glow even stronger, giving the player feedback that they are interact-able.
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The Swing is later re-iterated but with an evolution with several points that has to be swung from in a row while in mid-air in combination with the Slow Motion Mechanic
The Intro to the Main Goal
In the final shot she walks out of the Tree while the camera ...
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Keeps the Character within the frame to enforce that this is what this character sees and wants to go.
End Cinematic
(The End Cinematic doesn't have SFX or Music yet)
Utilizing the Healing Effect to transition from Sick to Healed Tree
The Goal of the Cut Scene
The goal of the cinematic was to first give a soft introduction to the World and ...
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I try to achieve the intro to the World by having it fade in from a Starry Sky before it slowly moves down into the forest and settles on a shot of the Secluded Tree where our Main Character is.
The Prototype
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The player can Hook and Tether puzzle components and NPCs together for a lot of potential Emergent Gameplay solutions to puzzles.
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The Cable itself can be interacted with to knock over Enemies or bounce on.
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Served as the foundation for the project.
Unfortunately it turned out to be too difficult to make the puzzle components fit and work art-wise so almost everything had to be cut.