That was our first mobile game on Unity. The premise was to make a puzzle game with one main element. 

It took more than 1 month out of the 3 we had to properly define our main element: the Sheep. We focus our gameplay on our sheep and their behaviors with each other, with the player and with the environment. 

We were a little bit behind schedule compared to other teams but thanks to that the production went smoothly and no change had to be done on our “Sheep system”.

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At the end of pre-production we agreed that our intentions were to create a peaceful space where the player can take their time to resolve the different puzzles we offer. That decision had an impact on our design and the levels.

We tried to let the player enjoy this moment without any external interference (like advertisement or tutorial). We also made an original soundtrack to immerse the player in this colorful and serene world.

 

We wanted to present and teach new mechanics on dedicated levels that don’t feel like tutorials. I designed those levels and I had to tweak them countless times to make sure that the player learned about all the different sheep interactions during their playthrough without noticing. 

 

When I designed a level I used different steps :

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• Create a first draft that works in my head with our level design prototyping tool.

 

• Present this draft to my teammates in Unity, in order to see if they can resolve the puzzle or, in most cases, if they can break it in a way I didn’t think about.

 

• Iterate on the last version to correct those “incorrect” solutions.

 

When all my teammates successfully resolved the puzzle the intended way I was allowed to integrate the art on it and add it to the build version for the next playtest.

 

During the playtest I watched if the difficulty was not too high in comparison to the other puzzles and if it was at the right place in the difficulty curve.

 

After some playtest and some iterations the level is ready to be published, but sometimes we see that the level doesn’t fit in the game so we cut it out and create a new one.