Game Design

The whole game revolves on one simple idea: your character holds a flashlight in a dark environment. You'll have to look around, activate devices and avoid traps to progress. Your flashlight aims at where you're looking on the screen, but be careful about what awaits you in the dark.

Concentration Mechanic

The eye tracker was at first only used to control the light beam, we later followed our teacher's advice to add light-activable devices which made players use their gaze to interact with objects. It enabled us new possibilities in level design but also created another problem : missing intentionality.

Players could now use objects with their eyes but didn't always mean to. They didn't understand and felt a lack of control with this new mechanic, until concentration came up.

The idea is simple : add another light state to trigger objects, controled by the player with a button. Triggering devices was not accidental anymore but meant. We then added new objects to interact with: like doors, light detectors and elevators to make it part of the core experience, and reinforcing the use of the eye tracking.

Eyes closed

To hide from the spider, players would have to get inside a closet and close their eyes for real. The idea turned out to be one of the most remarkable feature in the game. You had to rely on sounds to ensure the monster went away and fight the urge to open your eyes.