Mind the Gap wasn't a client project - It was a game jam entry, hosted by our friends over at Portals. Horror-themed, we created an entire game in just four days. Make something scary, make it good, and ship it. The mission was simple - build something we were proud of in the time we had!

In just over four days, we built Mind the Gap from nothing - a psychological horror, audio-visual experience set in the London Underground that follows a descent through memory, guilt and consequence. The tube carriage. The empty platform. The tunnel that goes somewhere it shouldn't. Every element of the environment was modelled, textured and lit by us, and the attention to detail in world-building is something we're genuinely proud of given the timeline.

The horror in Mind the Gap isn't loud. There are little to no jump scares. The game earns its dread through atmosphere, through the quality of the audio design and narration, and through a slow, creeping sense that something is deeply wrong with where you are and how you got there. We wanted it to feel like a memory you can't quite place - familiar enough to unsettle, wrong enough to disturb.

The whole thing is web-based and fully playable in your browser, which meant getting the balance of performance and visual quality right was a real part of the challenge.

 
 

Mind the Gap was a purely a jam project, built for the love of it in four days flat. It's one of those things that reminds you why this work is so exciting - a tight brief, a brilliant team, a deadline that forces good decisions, and a final result you couldn't have planned. We came second, which gave us the bug to make more games in portals. Go and play it. Just maybe not alone!
 
Play Mind The Gap here: https://theportal.to/?room=0f4be823-45b2-4bef-973d-df4efa44c24d