Lost & Bound

I created character designs, environment art, UI and narrative for Lost & Bound, an immersive puzzle game set in a decaying cemetery. The game was created in collaboration with programmer Sara Steeves and sound and music designer Alexandre Bandola.
I created character designs, environment art, UI and narrative for Lost & Bound, an immersive puzzle game set in a decaying cemetery. The game was created in collaboration with programmer Sara Steeves and sound and music designer Alexandre Bandola.

For: Game Jam, Personal Project

Skills: Creative Direction, Environment and Character Design, UX and UI Design, Game and Story Design.

A secret cemetery, a kidnapped sibling and puzzles most grave…join Historian Errol Locke in his perilous quest to rescue his Sister Clementine! 

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Having met Sara and Alexandre at Brighton’s Develop games conference and discovered a shared passion for magic, creativity and puzzles, we decided to join forces and look for a suitable game jam that we could enter together.

Interactive grave puzzle from the game 'Lost & Bound'
Character designs for the game 'Lost & Bound'. The characters resemble animals wearing Victorian inspired clothes.

After settling on the ‘Dying Year’ Visual Novel Jam, we explored our idea for a Gothic mystery puzzler set in a decaying cemetery. As Sara began working on a prototype for our Godot build, I started experimenting with characters, which took a rabbit-themed turn quite early on. I loved developing their personalities and experimenting with the brush pen art style and a limited colour palette. I began researching graves and tombstones and worked on early concept art for the environment and grave puzzles. At the same time, Alexandre referenced our ideas and began to explore the musical theme and sounds.

Interactive Grave Puzzle from 'Lost & Bound'. The image shows candles being lit in a tomb.
Concept sketch of a tomb and candles for the game Lost & Bound
Character concept sketches of Rabbits wearing Victorian style clothes for the game Lost & Bound

We had a lot of fun working out the mechanics for our various game puzzles through our weekly video calls (which were balanced around our other freelance commitments). We developed our outline for the story together. I then wrote the narrative, which we used to create our intro and outro cutscenes. I made additional spot illustrations for these. We decided on the name Lost & Bound, and I created our logo and title screen.

Initial wireframe sketch for the final tomb door puzzle
Initial wireframe sketch for the final tomb door puzzle
Concept sketch for the final tomb
Concept sketch for the final tomb
Final tomb completed puzzle environment
Final tomb completed puzzle environment
Early wireframe sketches for the game Lost & Bound
Early game wireframes
Cemetery concept sketches

Having begun development in October, by December 31st, we had completed work on the first iteration of ‘Lost & Bound’, and what had started as an outlet for a bit of creative playtime had grown into a solid, vertical slice of a game.

The main menu screen for the game Lost & Bound. A framed picture shows two rabbit characters looking fondly at each other. A candle flickers next to it and a map and book are just visible.
Cut scene from the introduction of the game Lost & Bound. Shows story narrative and an illustration of an evil book

We’re super proud of Lost & Bound and the world and atmosphere we created. I thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with Sara and Alex to make something of our own devising within the theme and timeline of the jam. Since release, the game has received consistent plays on our Itch page and positive reviews, with everyone asking when the full game is coming! We are currently exploring funding options, so watch this space! I’d love to work on more projects like this and let my imagination and storytelling fly.  

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