Observe
Study the layout and identify how the two sides of the puzzle affect one another.
Game Jam Project · 2022
Oppuzzle
Navigate opposing sides of a shared puzzle space, moving objects and activating mechanisms to uncover a route forward.
Project Overview
Two sides.
One solution.
Oppuzzle is a puzzle game created by a three-person team for Game Jam Summit 2022 in response to the theme of “Opposites.”
Players move through spaces built around opposing sides, pushing objects onto pressure plates and interacting with buttons or levers to alter the level.
Each puzzle asks the player to understand how the two sides relate before arranging the environment into a path that allows them to progress.
- My Role
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Level Design,
Puzzle and Game Design - Engine
- Unity
- Platform
- PC
- Team
- Three Developers
- Development
- Game Jam · 2022
Design Concept
The “Opposites” theme became a spatial puzzle in which progress depends on understanding both sides of the environment.
Instead of relying on complicated controls, the game builds its challenges from movement and interaction. Objects can be repositioned, pressure plates can hold mechanisms open, and buttons or levers can change the available route.
Combining a small set of readable interactions allowed the team to create puzzles that could grow in complexity while remaining approachable during a short game jam.
Core Player Loop
Position
Move through the level and place the player where each interaction can be reached.
Manipulate
Push objects and activate pressure plates, buttons or levers in the correct order.
Progress
Open the route forward and apply what was learned to the next puzzle space.
Gameplay Systems
Player Movement
Object Pushing
Pressure Plates
Buttons and Levers
Opposing Spaces
Puzzle Progression
My Contribution
My work focused on turning the central theme into readable spaces and puzzles that rewarded observation.
Level Design
Puzzle Design
Interaction Placement
Player Guidance
Difficulty Progression
Collaborative Game Design
Created as part of a three-person development team.
Development Challenge
The greatest challenge was designing puzzles that felt satisfying to solve without making the intended progression obscure or unfair.
A puzzle designer already knows every solution, which makes it difficult to judge how much information a new player needs. The environment therefore had to communicate which objects were interactive and how each mechanism affected the route ahead.
The first level became the clearest example of this work, combining the central interactions into a puzzle space that introduces the game’s logic through level design.
Project Media
Both Sides
In Motion
Gameplay footage and a surviving development screenshot preserve how Oppuzzle’s interactions and level layout worked during the jam.
Final Reflection
Oppuzzle remains a compact example of collaborative game-jam design and my interest in building gameplay directly through level layout.
I am particularly proud of the first level’s puzzle and the way its environment supports the game’s central idea. The project reinforced how important visual communication, iteration and player perspective are when creating puzzles.
A downloadable PC build remains available through itch.io.
Play Oppuzzle on itch.io