Game Art and Design
Roisin Bent
A Curious Gift
A Curious Gift is a puzzle game made for PC using Unity HDRP. Inspired by the popular game series, The Room, A Curious Gift introduces the player to a puzzle box that holds hidden secrets. Solve puzzles using your intuition and problem-solving skills, with the helping hand of the mysterious eyepiece to view secrets you would never find without it.
A Curious Gift was created as part of the Major Games Project. The project aim was to create a beginner level that could be expanded on in the future, creating the building blocks to allow the creation of further levels easily. The progression of the game is based on prior experience, allowing the player to intuitively understand how to solve a puzzle based on the puzzles that came before.
The goal was to strike a balance of challenge no matter the experience a player may have with other puzzle games. It starts off very easily, with a tutorial included to introduce the player to the controls. They are then left to explore the puzzle box themselves, though there is an underlying linear progression path so the player should always have a thing to do, find, or solve.