Free Guy

72-hour meta narrative jam game — Mağara Jam finalist.

challenge →: 72 hours, five people, and a branching meta narrative that had to work on the first build.
what i did →: Made a Figma board the single source of truth: nodes, conditions, state flags, and handoff notes for the programmer.
result →: Mağara Jam finalist (Top 15); handoff stayed fast and stable under time pressure.

project type: Game Jam Project
role: Game Designer
team: 5 (Designer, 2 Programmers, Artist, Lighting and Sound)
scope: Jam prototype • Engine: GameMaker • Duration: 72 h • Status: Finalist

★ Mağara Jam finalist (Top 15)

72-hour jam prototype with meta beats. I designed the dialogue + interaction flow on paper and then built the Figma board that the programmer implemented.

Think Stanley Parable narration with Inscryption-style meta turns.

My contributions

Owned dialogue/interaction flow: paper sketches → structured Figma nodes/conditions/state flags (source of truth).
Scoped the core loop + meta beats; wrote jam-friendly micro-copy to steer attention.
Coordinated handoff to implementation (frame IDs, trigger notes, acceptance criteria); tracked changes during the jam.
Kept a 27-page design notebook (goals, loop sketches, branches/guardrails, iteration log); selected scans below.

Design notes

Onboarding: teach-by-doing; first prompt appears after a short idle delay.
Guardrails: state gates prevent dead ends; hints escalate subtle → explicit.
Process: paper → Figma → build check → copy tweaks; decisions recorded on the board.

Results & learnings

Mağara Jam finalist (Top 15); clear specs made handoff fast and stable under time pressure.

Gallery

Work space with sketch and Figma
Cinematic flow
Act 1 flow
Act 2 flow
Ending act
Sketch scan
Sketch scan