Greatly inspired by Amnesia: The dark descent (2010, Frictional games), Spleen offers an alternative that causes a change in the perception of the hero. To resume, the sanity level of the hero has an influence on the representation of the level, as it metamorphoses itself. 

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Sometimes, the sanity level of the hero needs to be low in order to be able to reach some key rooms, as some walls might disappear or some doors ready to be open might turn up. Adjusting sanity to a low level is a risk to take to be able to progress. As a consequence, managing sanity well is the key to succeed.

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In order to help the player to better manage his sanity, light zones are present which allow his character to gain back his sanity and matchboxes allow him to regain sanity in dark zones for a short time. As a level designer on this project, organizing the light/dark zones allowed me to manage the difficulty of the level, as well as define the number and position of the matchboxes that can be found.

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Being a horror game, an important work on the ambiance was done to transliterate fear. One of our main intentions was to create this feeling without the presence of any threat. Therefore, dark places, a miserable and abandoned environment, cold lights and narrow corridors were our tools to create this feeling of oppression. In contrast to the hospital ones, we wanted the rooms from the manor to feel warmer, while still being mysterious and uncanny.

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On this project, I contributed to the creation of one level (that you can test by yourself by downloading the prototype just below). My main intentions were to create a labyrinth, in which the player has the feeling of losing his bearings and getting confused.