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Linelith Level Design Timeline
Patrick Traynor
2023-01-18
This webpage is an interactive timeline of the level design iteration during the development of my puzzle game Linelith, which is part of the CosmOS 9 Bundle. You can view the level design at 32 points in time, plus annotations and additional information. I put together this timeline because I thought it would be interesting to see the three world structures I made before settling on the fourth and final one.
In Linelith, you draw lines to solve puzzles which are embedded in colorful minerals.
If the game looks interesting to you, I think it's worth experiencing blind, before reading this timeline. :) The mechanics have a few clever twists that get introduced as you progress. It's a relatively short game, around an hour.
Chart of puzzle count over time
- You can click on bars to jump to that point in time.
- You can click on the tile types in the legend above the chart to show and hide them.
- Points 15, 20, 23, and 32 are the final versions of each level iteration.
- Points 15 and 32 have a similar number of total puzzles, but 15 has a lot of freebie "puzzles" that aren't really puzzles, whereas 32 has a higher density of actual puzzles.
- The proportions of the tile types changed over time as I changed what purpose I used each tile type for. By the end, I used yellow for standard puzzles, brown exclusively for pushable-rock puzzles, green for decorative walls, pink mostly for explicit dots-on-ground puzzles, and blue for standard ground.