World│Level Designer

A Girl Named Annie is a narrative-driven psychological horror game about a young woman returning to her childhood home after her mother’s death, where she discovers a dollhouse that reshapes the house itself. As darkness spreads, Annie must explore three key rooms and use light to repel it and progress.

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I joined the project from its inception, contributing to the core game design, including mechanics and narrative. Early in development, I co-prototyped the game as a physical board game prior to the digital prototype. I was later responsible for creating level design tools, such as spline systems, and developing a modular kit for blockouts. I completed the full blockout of the house and handled the game’s set dressing and lighting through polish.

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One of the main challenges of the project was designing the room-rearrangement mechanic in a way that felt intuitive to the player while remaining tightly connected to the stalking creature and the room-based puzzles. While the concept worked well in paper prototyping, translating it into a digital space introduced technical constraints. Rooms needed to be square and follow strict dimensions to allow for spawning and swapping, which limited traditional spatial variety.

 

As a level designer, the challenge became making rigid, modular spaces feel engaging. To address this, I first built a modular kit that allowed for rapid iteration, then used spline-based tools to introduce visual and spatial variation within the square layouts.