Telekinesis and physics interaction
For our game’s first puzzle, we focused heavily on making the environment narrative the key interest point. From the moment you walk into the first room, your vision will be placed on the back door, which houses the puzzle’s solution. In the final puzzle, we need to force the player to use more brainpower on figuring out the puzzle instead of finding the answers around them. To do this, we decided to give the player the power of telekinesis that Myvari, our character, realizes she has had within her the whole time. We have three steps to get the player to this point of understanding.
Rocks Falling
Telekinesis hasn’t been seen in this game in any form yet. Some magic came from her necklace, but we need to provide some information to tell the player that she has something in her. A cinematic works well for this. We need to design the interaction.
Design
After finishing the first door puzzle, you encounter a large...