Umbilical

This game is in constant change, and will definitely change more until the final release!
You may wishlist to check the end result!

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This is a 3rd person game about protecting the connection that joins the playable character and the game camera, also personified as a character.

As I worked on it, my responsibilities were the following:

• Take part in the first public playtest of the existing build, gather data and confront it with the director’s vision.
• Non-Digital Prototypes of gameplay, searching for fun mechanics and puzzles to do with the Camera-Character-Umbilical Cord triad
• Rulesets and guidelines of the proposed mechanics
• Whitebox of a ‘playground area’, where we could playtest it and check different use cases and expand upon them
• “Horror triggers”: small events that we could put in the game and scare the player and test it - lights, sounds, etc

On Media

• The Gamer - Umbilical Is A Fascinating Co-Op Horror Game About Staying Connected
• Dread XP - Umbilical Is A Deeply Personal Horror Game

I worked on the design team of this project, together with 2 partners:
Ralph Santos, who took the original concept from the director and designed the build I eventually playtested, and
Vanessa Aguillar, who worked together with me on all the responsibilities above.

Steam Page