Paths and Checkpoints

I used the landscape sculpting walls to physically bar the player from going certain places. By mimicking mountains, I can entirely halt the player from going out of any area I do not want them, while simultaneously creating an engaging land scape. I also used props to guide where the player went. They added a sense of going through a living area, which . Paths are merely suggestions, and as such are much better suited for games that do not need to be entirely linear. I still used it here, less so as a guide and more so as worldbuilding (environmental storytelling?). These all serve as immersive, diegetic ways to make a player go where the developer wants them to.

I largely made my checkpoint the same as the one in the video. Instead of a dining table, I put my checkpoint next to more of a sheltered bench. It also has a flag next to it representing the colour of the checkpoint (when it is pressed, there is not a yellow flag): blue. To make the scene a little more immersive, the area surrounding the checkpoint is furnished. I placed a few haybales and a crate of watermelons, a house, and some fences surrounding farmland. These create a lived-in impression. The extra bits add the atmosphere that this mystery game needs; it makes the player ask where the people have gone. It also just looks nicer than having nothing else but trees.