Tea. Does design stuff
with games

One of my two maps for the 48 hour competition Tune. The task was to make a level inspired by a song.

I chose Daughter - Youth, which I always wanted to make a level about. It ended up getting third place out of 28 levels.

Two and a half weeks into the three week competition about backtracking, I had the idea for this one. It's basically about absurd ways to open a door and going more insane as you progress.

The four-day map ended up being the second best rated on the competition, although it couldn't win since I submitted after the deadline.

»An odd quirk of Valve's Source Engine is that if you forget to put a skybox around a level, the world will repeat itself over the blank spaces - smeared across the space where the void would be. In a brilliant move, mapper and indie dev [Tea] has gone and turned that into a chill artscape. Shards of colour paint themselves upon the void, rooms collapse inwards upon themselves.

»Broken, haunting, brilliant stuff.«

- Natalie Clayton, RockPaperShotgun

I always wanted to make a staircase that leads to just a tree. That's where the museum originates from. An exhibition about the extinct homo sapiens.

The theme is Companion Piece 2, create a map featuring a personal companion.

This level is my first attempt at focusing on a concrete story. It lasts for about 5 minutes and could be considered an "interactive short story".

"Textures are for tryhards!", the theme of this competition was basically: use dev textures, keep it short and fun.

Source is definitely not the optimal engine for a gravity flipping puzzle game (I did it anyways).

Made in basically one Sunday afternoon, this was my highest rated entry at the time and reached the second place.

An interactive essay that starts with nothing and gradually adds aspects until you could call it a game.

After my Abitur and the almost 3-year level design break that came with it, I dedicated myself to this project to get familiar with mapping again.