Interactive Experiences

Sandflower

In Progress.

You protect a living flower from a sandstorm, drawing power from the flower to keep up the pace.

Its abilities fuel a cycle of rising speed and tension, culminating in moments

of overwhelming momentum and partial loss of control.

Built in Unreal Engine.

Gameplay Loop and Mechanics

Procedural Generation

The core loop is built around lane-shifting and wall-surfing, which lets you charge a burst gauge over time. The boost triggers automatically once full, sending you into a short, high-speed peak you can’t control.

The more you ride that state, the more exhilarating and unstable it becomes, creating a constant pull between chasing the rush and assessing the unavoidable moment of loss.

I focused heavily on procedural generation to make the project scalable and solve the genre’s main weakness: repetition. I built a system of nested arrays to create reusable pattern sequences that can be combined in different ways.

Each sequence follows simple rules (a start block, an end block, and a variable number of middle blocks), and each block is chosen randomly from a set of assets. While designing assets, I always tested their repeatability to ensure they looked good next to any other piece.

Core mechanics : jump, slide and switching lanes on ground or on walls. Other features in development

Early tests of procedural generation on an early prototype, then applied with assets.

First image : enumerator used to stock pattern sequences. Blueprints (nodal programmation) of the tile and its manager, zoom on the construction of patterns.

Art and Design : Environments

The floral canyon

Declinaison of numerous assets, 3 for the beginning and the end and seven for the middle components. Mainly inspired from the colored canyon in Sinnai (Egypt). i wanted floral shapes on agressive geology, a petrificated life.

In the next chapter :

Character (modelling and animation), music, new environments and more...

Character and sand-skate research. Constraints: fluid movement, desert/canyon adaptability, scalable design (down to one inch), protection, wind, and floral inspiration.

Other sets of rocks ready to be textured

Other Prototypes (Unity, Godot)

Game feel comes first, even if I’m itching to dive into music, art direction, and world-building.

A strong universe can’t fix a game that doesn’t work.

When testing simple mechanics or early game ideas, i put elaborate visuals aside.

Here is a selection of two prototypes from a larger set.

VR Experiences

Focusing on what I feel in a space, rather than how it looks, makes

a huge difference when designing environments ;

it brings them to life.

Built in AFrame (WebVR).