Nowhere in Sight

Use echolocation to see his world and solve the mystery. An escape room-like psychological horror game.

This game was part of the Jury Selection of the Game Development World Competition 2020.

This game was an HKU group project

Narrative design and mechanic design

• The goal was to make a game that used a unique perspective for the player. The protagonist uses echolocation, and slowly regains vision throughout the game while also uncovering a bloody mystery about his mother.

• Challenges included writing a surreal story that communicates well to the player during gameplay.

• Initial ideas for surreal stories wound up too nonsensical when designing fitting gameplay, as most puzzles/progression points had to use logic to make sense to the player.

• I realized the core mechanic should support the story rather than obscure it, which led to the idea of using echolocation along with the progressive regaining of normal vision, along with a psychological horror theme.

Other duties:

• Puzzle/progression design

• Playtesting

• Debugging

• Sound design