Role
Moved concept into 3D space
Environment Designer & Builder
Narrative
This assignment asked for an interactive environment that could communicate a personal journey. Light responded by building a world shaped around emotional restoration: a colourless environment that gradually returned to life as the user moved through it and interacted with the space.
The concept came from a desire to visualise emotional heaviness without making the experience static. Instead of presenting depression as a fixed state, the project framed recovery as an active process, using interaction and spatial progression to suggest that change happens step by step.
During ideation, Light drew from games such as The Stanley Parable and Death Stranding , along with urban references from his own surroundings. That combination helped shape an environment that felt symbolic rather than literal, using buildings, pathways, and transformation as metaphors for confinement and release.
Rapid prototyping became central to the project. With tools like ProBuilder, he could test scale, movement, and environmental composition quickly before overcommitting to more complex scripting. This allowed him to explore how colour restoration, pacing, and interaction might work together in a cohesive way.
User feedback also informed the final direction. After sharing an early build with testers, Light refined the clarity of the interaction and developed supporting interface elements that better communicated controls and accessibility. That process reinforced the value of testing experiential work with real users rather than relying only on internal judgement.
The finished piece worked as both environment design and metaphor. By asking players to physically move through and over obstacles as the space regained colour, the project translated an internal emotional state into an interactive journey, while helping Light strengthen his worldbuilding, prototyping, and UX thinking in Unity.
