I created this game to present it at the 2021 Cannes International Games Festival as part of the Master’s degree in Humanities and Creative Industries.

In SNAP, the player can snap their fingers to travel between three dimensions. Each one features a different version of the prison city of Watchtown (dictatorial, anarchic, post-apocalyptic).

Pursued by dark forces, the player must escape the city using their dimensional powers. For instance, the player can overcome obstacles by travelling to a dimension where they do not exist.

Level Design

Completing a level should not only give the player the feeling of having “beaten” the game but also the sense of having learned a new mechanic. I therefore designed each level to encourage the player to discover a new gameplay possibility.

Some levels are designed to intentionally mislead the player (such as a level that looks simple but has a more complex solution than it seems) prompting them to make a mistake and subsequently experiment. In these instances, the player is led to assume a solution, only to be encouraged to deconstruct that false assumption themselves. The player must “beat” the game but also their own assumptions.

Playtests

I designed all levels to be interchangeable. This is a crucial detail, as the difficulty of a puzzle is subjective and can vary from player to player.

Feedback from playtests is therefore extremely valuable to the level design process; it reveals a great deal about the actual difficulty of each level, allowing us to quickly modify and rearrange the design to maintain control over the game’s difficulty curve and meet tight deadlines.

Product Owner: CAILLET Théo

Scrum Master: BEZAMANIFARY Lionel

Game and level designer: ROCHOTTE Lilian

Developers: HAMAI Sabine, HUREZ Anthony

2D artists: BERTA Manon, MANSIER Thibault

Sound designers: AMOESI Valdino, DJELLALI Liamine

Narrative designer: GREIVELDINGER Yann

With the voices of: BEZAMANIFARY Lionel, FENOLL Léo, GREIVELDINGER Yann