Concept | Mixed reality horror game

CATEGORY | Game Design

ROLE | Narrative Designer + Level Designer

Brief

Concept game design for a mixed reality experience based on the movie “It Follows”

Work Flow

• Narrative: Level design, user experience, world building research/documentation

• Tools: Paper prototyping, Excel

Summary

• Research: Documentation of the It Follows world and existing game-mechanics.

• Narrative design: Extending game mechanics for mixed reality and consideration of user experience in a physical environment.

• Prototype 1: Created a spreadsheet to model basic game mechanics including walking speed, locations and player choices.

• Prototype 2: Reviewed building and house layouts for ingress/egress and safety zones.

• Prototype 3: Utilised hexagonal graph paper to test different game mechanics including safety zones, directions, ingress/egress points and gated player information. These were iterated through several rounds of play testing.

• Prototype 4: Mock ups of potential user interface designs