Heart of the Forest

ROLE

Lead Designer, Environment designer, Level designer

About

The heart of the forest project had 18 weeks of development. the first 4 weeks was the development of the production plan of the game where we had to pitch to the clients the game we were making for them. After that the team went into development, my task for the start of the project was to plan the tutorial and how the player will play through it and learn the mechanics into later development I had to play a bigger role as level designer and environment designer for three other parts of the game.

YEAR

2022

GENRE

Casual Game, Platformer

PLATFORM

itch.io

Team

5 Designer

4 programmer

4 Artist

LEVEL DESIGN Concept

HOTF tutorial first concept

The first concept of the tutorial was to make the player travel through small cave to learn the mechanics when the player is at the entrance of the cave, they will be told they can burrow into the ground.

final Concept of tutorial

The final tutorial concept gives the player a start on some of the basic mechanics such as the burrow and double jump. but also show the platforms they can use such as the bounce pad, collapsing platforms, moving platforms and rotating platform.

final village concept

The main village concept was designed in mind to guide the player to the god where they will be tasked to find the remaining heart fragments to restore their forest.

top level concept

This was the final concept for the top area when the team was in production of the game. The top area is the smallest in the game but the player get to glide in air currents to find the missing heart fragment.

LEVEL DESIGN Implementing

Top area implementation

This is the final design of the top level implemented into the engine as you can see changes had to be made to make the experience more fun for the player by making it a little more difficult, by adding more air currents and adding poison puddles that will kill you if you don't stay within the air currents.

Tutorial implementation area

The tutorial area also did amazingly well in getting implemented into the engine. while the final concept is still the same the only change has been the platforms with in the tutorial the player now has to use the glow ability to regrow the mushrooms to make a platform for the player to jump on and progress into the game.

Village area implementation

The village has stayed to the original concepte where the player will be able to see a lively village where mushrooms will interact with their homes and plants when you use the heart fragment you have collected from the tutorial to recover the gods heart.

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