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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe week culminated with giving the pitch to Bob Bates, a veteran game designer with experience in adventure games. Bob said the game concept was very cohesive, but also provided helpful criticism about how the gameplay could be more compelling. Most notable was Bob’s feedback on the main puzzle mechanics, based on his copious experience designing puzzles. In particular, he expressed that solving a puzzle has to give the player a satisfying eureka moment, and that it has to be equally satisfying whether the player is able to solve a puzzle in 30 seconds or 5 minutes. He also pointed out that, in a puzzle game, the player spends most of their time doing the “wrong” thing while in search of the puzzle solution. It is the job of the puzzle designers to make doing the wrong things fun for the player, and to make sure that these wrong things still provide clues that eventually lead the player to the solution. At the end of the meeting, Bob also sent the design team resources to further guide the design, including a chapter from his book about puzzles, and a recording of a music-themed adventure game called Loom with similarities to our concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n\nIn the space of 2D concept art, Harry continued to flesh out concepts such as the interaction with corruption on the points of interaction and with the world in general.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Finally, Joy wrapped up on details on the character design sheet and moved into the 3D modeling of the main character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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