learning through the level.

Kyle Halpern


In Tato's work. He talks about the level design. specifically about how the level can teach you how to play the game just by the design of the level itself. An example of this is in Super Meat Boy. In Super Meat Boy level 1-2 in order to complete the level you have to get to a platform that is very high up and their at first may appear to be no way to reach it. Plus if you run right u will run right into the wall. However once the player jumps into the wall he starts to slide down it. this lets the player know that their is something strange about the wall. Once they press jump while sliding on the wall they learn that they can jump off the wall, and even keeping jumping up the vertical wall till they reach bandage girl.

puzzle ideas

1. the first puzzle idea i a type of illusion where u count. small objects of multiple colors. This would be based of the ted talk idea that puzzles are illusions From the ted talk presentations.

2. we could give people a puzzle decoding spreadsheet that has the translations for certain letters. and people could use this decoder for translating a script in another language. The goal of this puzzle would be to figure out what the hidden message in the puzzle is

3.This next idea is an idea that you could put in an escape room. In this idea you would hide a  black light in the room. Then layers in the room could use the black light in order to find hidden clues and answers in the escape room. This Idea would be able to turn the environment itself into a puzzle.

4.This next idea is an idea that involves scattering objects around a room and having players retrieve the objects. What makes this a puzzle is that they would have to use objects in the environment in order to get the necessary objects in order to progress.

5. The final idea is the idea of a maze were you can only move your piece through the maze in only certain directions. This will make the player think differently about the normal way that they would go through the maze.