What is Celestial?
Use your lamp to manipulate the environment and destroy hordes of enemies. Clear arenas and find your way home. Celestial was my honours project for university and it became a very personal project that lives on through paintings.
Celestial
Design videos
Activating traps
The concept of the game was to use the environment as a weapon. You would manipulate stairs to make enemies fall and set up a combination of traps.
Most of the moments of the game came from the player finding a trap to finish off an enemy chasing them down. Looping around the map to use traps was a fun and exciting cat and mouse experience.
Reflection
This game was really fun and sometimes pulled me in to replay the same levels when I was meant to only test one level but it was clear I hadn't worked out what my level design worked. Many maps were awkward and did not make use of the game's premise.
The project would have been much better as a tighter vertical slice. Using only 3 well planned out levels and a smaller scope on the traps/ AI. Less content would have made this showcase a very wonderful product.
Interested in downloading a playable copy of Celestial?
download for free anytime from my google drive