MetaphOrder
An Asymmetrical Puzzle Game for 2 players
Two players embody the same and unique character, inhabitant of the people of Curiosity.
You will have to cross the Observatory, a structured and rational world, using non-Euclidean mechanics.
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Context of the project
MetaphOrder is a student project carried out in the 1st year of Master JMIN at cnam ENJMIN .
The instruction is to create an interactive experience of 10 minutes maximum .
Development took just under 3 months of production.
The team is made up of:
Minna Clear
UX Designer
User Researcher
Enzo Giglio
Sound Designer
Baptist Bourgoin
Game Designer
Eva Rebillat
Game Designer
Level Designer
Miguel Saura Drago
Game Artist
Julien Vanderhaegen
Program
Jeanneva Tarrier-Walters
Infographist
Context of the project
MetaphOrder is a student project carried out in the 1st year of Master JMIN at cnam ENJMIN.
The instruction is to create an interactive experience of 10 minutes maximum.
Development took just under 3 months of production.
The team is made up of:
Minna Clear
UX Designer
User Researcher
Enzo Giglio
Sound Designer
Baptist Bourgoin
Game Designer
Eva Rebillat
Game Designer
Level Designer
Miguel Saura Drago
Game Artist
Julien Vanderhaegen
Programmer
Jeanneva Tarrier-Walters
Infographist
MetaphOrder
The story
The Observatory : a world filled with portals giving views to other universes. The People of Curiosity study them and store the knowledge they accumulate in immense libraries. An observation goes wrong and the anomaly, an unknown entity , enters and spreads in the Observatory. Your character in contact with him develops a new perception of his environment and wishes to share his vision with his people. This one, suspicious, will prevent you from spreading this knowledge.
Gameplay
One player controls the character's body while the other controls the character's head (the camera).
The two players synchronize to perform two powers:
the power of rotation that allows you to move on any wall, floor or ceiling
and the power of perspective which makes it possible to connect two platforms that are distant from each other and thus cross space.
All objects and entities affected by the Anomaly respond to this new physics.
My role and my work
I pitched MetaphOrder as a 2 player puzzle game with asymmetrical gameplay.
The main intention, which remained throughout the project, is to "play" with the camera .
With the help of Baptiste, another game designer, we defined together the core gameplay of the game.
In the absence of a Manager on our project, I also took on this responsibility.
Level Design
I was in charge of the entire Level Design. This assignment includes:
designing all the puzzles , producing the blockout in the engine (I used the Probuilder add-on in Unity ), paying attention to learning and progress in terms of difficulty , adjusting my work according to feedback from playtests , constantly communicating with the team...
Stands
MetaphOrder was the subject of the creation of two stands . The goal was to allow professionals to test our game as well as to be immersed in the world of the Observatory.
