What I did on Me and Myself in the dark

Role : Game Designer | 3D modeler & animator

Co-designed the core mechanics, challenges, enemies design and level design…
Focused on conveying a sense of fear and tension through gameplay
Co-designed enemies behavior
3D models, textured and with looping animations ( main character and enemies )

What is Me and Myself in the dark ?

Me and Myself is a Topdown 3D cooperative action/survival game, where the 2 players will control a robot’s body and it’s hanging head. They will have to use a complementary set of abilities to survive crawling enemies in the dark.

Each player has specific abilities linked to their controlled avatar ( Movement boost, enlighten the place, damaging monsters… ) but some of these abilities cancel others, making everyone vulnerable when using one.

Intentions / Others

Reflexes, communication and tension

What’s really challenging in this game is the fact that you constantly need to communicate with the other player ( Which we wanted ! ) and adapt your gameplay to/with him.

This is possible because the controls are ‘reversed’, the player controlling the robot’s body can move himself and activate the head’s lighting ability.
The other player controlling the hanging above robot’s head, he’s able to move the camera and activate the boost ability of the body…

Perception based challenge... in the dark

The game involves a lot of perception and reflexes challenge because of the need to constantly looking for threats and escaping/defeating it.

Considering the fact we wanted a lot of tension through gameplay we also choose to put the 2 players in the darkness to really put them in an uncomfortable mood at any moment, with taking care that all gameplay mechanics would make them more vulnerable when they use them often.