Swordsman in Trotting Horse Lamp

Game Design

What kinds of scrolls can be long enough to be a game map?

We chose Chinese Landscape Painting in Song Dynasty as the background paintings, as some of them are painted on long scrolls. Below on the lefr is the detail A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains, one of the painting we used. We also adopted silhouette style to imitate shadows on the lamps.

How scroll of map works?

The game character moves, scroll of map and the lamp follows, and new parts of the game level keep showing up as if the player is using toilet paper. When one level is finished, the character would go to another layer and start a new level. Below on the right is tht actual implementation.