Level Design

Challenge

Create a learning curve to explain the games’ main and secondary mechanics through increasingly complex puzzles.

Workflow

I sketched out my puzzles beforehand, starting with one of the more difficult levels, which ended up being Level 6 / 7.

I then reverse engineered what mechanics had to be explained beforehand to be able to understand that level.

• Buttons de-/activate walls of that color
• Guns allow you to activate buttons of the same color from afar with LOS
• Guns disappear when entering the next level
• It will often be required to walk on top of walls
• Sometimes one should deactivate a wall while standing on it
• There are differently colored buttons and walls
• There are differently colored guns. Switching between them is possible via the mouse wheel
• There are mixed-colored walls, which can be activated by the buttons of the colors that mix the wall

Based on those sketches, I created blockouts, most of which strongly resembled my initial vision.

Final Result