After taking part in Ludum Dare 47 with work colleagues, i decided i wanted to try out taking part in a jam on my own. Around this time i had been playing The Medium and Control, and had the idea for something that combined the SCP inspired story of Control with a more explicitly psychological horror based plot.
A vague plot for ONI began to take shape and i decided this would be a good candidate for the jam. Id long ago seen a tech demo of portals in the unity engine and had always wanted to try implementing this myself but had never found the time. As such i decided to make portal mechanics and visuals a big feature of the jam, having the player travel and back and forth between 2 versions of the same environment set at different points in time.
The game also featured a deal of environmental story telling and old school “find x to open y” puzzles to gate progression, requiring the player to engage with the story in order to pick up on key information required to progress in the game itself.
Daniel Whittaker 