What I did on PYKT

Role : Game & Level Designer | Integration tasks, animation and coding

Co-designed each character’s capacities, linked to the narrative / meaning within the game
Designed the tutorial part and first level design situations ( Tutorial for 1st character, platforming and musical puzzle designs… )
Co-designed a global overview of game’s level design and integrated principles of emotional valence flows in it
Took part in assets integration and level building ( Did approximately half of the prototype )
Did code Square ability and took care of the entire animator tree/animator scripting( C# )
Created some animations in After Effects for Square & Round
Helped to social networks updates

PYKT has been selected to Hits Playtime, a student video game project competition !

You can download PYKT right here !

What is PYKT ?

PYKT is a 2D Puzzle/platformer game with a gameplay driven narrative where you control Round, who will meet 2 other playable characters, Square and Triangle.

Each of these little geometrical people have a special ability that can be used to overcome challenges involving platform and/or puzzles.

By going deeper in PYKT forest, the player will loose some of his playable characters and will need to adapt to these loss.

Some things I did / co-created on this project

Intentions / Vision

Tell a story about friendship and loss

PYKT narrative is about illustrating how friendship is related to separation and loss. The importance of this relation would be illustrated by substracting some of the player’s gameplay possibilities to make them feel a lack of something.

Emotions through progression

The general level design would have been closely linked to the global emotional variations the narrative wanted to convey. When we wanted the player to feel a serious lack of something, a loss, we wanted to emphasise on making the level design go down/deeper to amplify the emotional meaning of the situations.