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During my final year I was able to offer my services as a level design specialist to the 4 projects in my class:
Claws is a non-violent metroid-vania

Release Date

20 June 2024

Platform

PC

Play the fiddler crab Sir Remi, gentleman and favorite musician of Queen Txangurra, in his journey to get his stolen precious belongings back. 

Use your ingenious claws and abilities to take advantage of your environment and quirky enemies to progress in a cheerful and colorful sea kingdom.

Responsabilities

  • Build levels on LTDK
  • create situations
  • create map
  • Use Houdini to convert 2D level
mapClaws.PNG

Pre-Production

To create the game map we took inspiration from a pre-production technique used by the developers of Blasphemous.

This technique involved using post-its and writing a room intention on them.

ref map 2.png
ref map 1.png

our Sketches:

During the pre-prod phase, we first drew inspiration from other metroid-vania games, such as Metroid prime, Hollow knight, ...


By collecting a large number of macro map references, we were able to draw inspiration from the layout of the rooms.

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The first level was intended to be a tutorial on jumping and controlling your character, but ends with you obtaining your first clamp: the force clamp.

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