Supraland is a First-Person Metroidvania Puzzle game. The main sources of
inspiration are Zelda, Metroid and Portal. Supraland assumes that you are intelligent
and lets you play independently. The story is minimal, gives you an overarching goal to
pursue, and then sets you free. – Metroidvania – You explore a large interconnected
world in which most ways are at first unpassable until you find new abilities to
overcome those obstacles. A cornerstone of Supraland’s design was to create abilities
that are so versatile, they will keep on surprising you by how many different usages
they have. If you combine your abilities, the possibilities become even bigger. –
Exploration – Most of the game is about exploring the sandbox world to track down
secrets. Often you will think you are about to get out of bounds and beat the level
designer, but right there is a chest waiting for you with a very rewarding upgrade.
Supraland respects your lifetime and doesn’t bloat the playtime with unlimited
no-brainer collectibles. – Puzzle Design – The deeper you get into the game the more you
will be facing creative puzzles you’ve never seen anywhere before, encouraging you to
stop and think about what abilities you have and how you can use them in yet another
way. Puzzle types that I already knew from other games were immediately rejected in the
design process. And it’s important to me that once you understand the idea behind a
puzzle, you can pretty much immediately solve it instead of having to go through a
cumbersome, frustrating execution. – Fighting – The fighting mechanics are inspired by
old-school, fast-paced shooter games like Unreal, Doom and Quake, encouraging high-speed
strafing and jumping while throwing shot after shot at hordes of charging enemies
without ever having to worry about weapons reloading.
