Spring Breeze
Spring Breeze is a single player action adventure game featuring a wily mouse and a faithful owl working together to defeat a common foe. Navigate your way through a beautiful forest and destroy the alien structure at the center of the level while avoiding or destroying the alien drones chasing you.
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The first thing the player see when entering the game: The
main objective in focus
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The "Hills" objective, with the path towards the "Forest"
objective on the right
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The "Forest" Objective.
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Two paths out from the "Forest" objective.
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The transition area between the "Forest" and the main
objective.
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The very narrow and hard to navigate area where the "Cave"
objective is.
Level Design
Whiteboxing using placeholder assets made by the artists and sculpting
terrain in Unity.
Taking the level from concept to final product going through several
iterations of the level design as the game mechanics
changed.
Set Dressing - Assisting the artists by populating the
environment with assets trying to get a varied and diverse believable forest
with a minimum amount of assets.
Scripting and Gameplay DesignWorking closely with the programmers designing and tweaking the player
camera behaviour and functionality.
Tweaking and iterating on the player controls
together with the programmers with the goal of having the main mechanic
feels as polished as possible and working with the level we have.
Working with the VFX, Animation, Audio and UI designers designing
visual feedback for the player character and the
environment to enhance the quality of the game experience and give the
players visual feedback on all their actions.
Scripting and Gameplay Design
Starting the game you are immediately confronted with the main
objective of the game. The environment is shaped to funnel the
player towards the objective. There is a cable coming out of
the left side shaped to lead the player towards the first small objective.
Coming into the hills area you are being led towards the
objective with both the environment and the cable. The
objective is in sight as soon as you get in. The top of the trees creates a less
inviting noisy feeling and is supposed to make the player not want to fly up.
Once you make it to the hills objective you are forced to make quick
decisions. You have a multitude of options of what to do. There is
an obvious path you can take through the stone arch which is
the most easily navigated if you pick up the objective here. But you can also
fly up and above through the small gaps in the foliage
(circled). Or fly to either of the paths left. There IS a path
to the right, but it is not possible to turn into it, which is why it is
hidden when you come in from this angle.
Coming out of the forest objective area you have a couple of
options. Either taking the obvious easy path through the stone
arch, following the cable you know lead to the
objective. Or you can fly down through the inviting bent over
trees.
Most of the time when you are looking towards the direction of the main
objective it will be framed for you to easily find it,
or you can follow the cables. The trees are aligned all over the level to invite
the player to fly in between them and close to them.
Inside the cave the objective is framed in the center of the
cave. BUT I want to bring up something here. The cable is actually leading
straight up and through the ceiling of the cave, which is too steep of
an angle for the player to fly up and is not following the intended
critical path of the cave area (either of the red
arrows). This is something that I didn't have time
to correct during the project but something I would fix if
there was more time by either having the cable follow the critical path or
making the cave larger to allow the player to fly up.
Level Overview.
