Solo Game
Made in Unity
Puzzle Platformer
Development Time: 3 Days
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100 Year Dungeon is 2D platformer in which you play as an old treasure hunter. You have returned to a dungeon from your youth that you were never able to conquer. The dungeon is imbued with mystical powers however, allowing you to rewind time to your youth, giving you back your long lost grace and agility! Beware however as there are many dangers in the past and a malevolent evil lurks deep within the dungeon.
This game was a submission for the Brackey's 2020.2 "Rewind" Game Jam. For this project I developed all the code and art myself.
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The mechanic that I created for this game was the ability to go back and forward in to between young and old versions of yourself. At any point in the game you could be in either one of two states. Either you were in the past and your character was young, fast, and able to jump around or you were in the future where your character was old and slow. To make the player actually want to swap between these two states rather than just stay young, I added some environmental incentives to the player.
The first of which was the implementation of certain platforms and obstacles that would only impede the player in "one" of the their two time states. There would be certain platforms that would longer exist when you were old and lava lakes blocking your path when you are young. This solved the issue of coming up with a way to require the player to use their ability, but it wasn't enough to be considered a "fun obstacle" for the player, as it took very little for the player to solve and progress with that alone.
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The second implementation was that of enemies effected by time. The concept was that in the characters past when they were young, there was a cult that inhabited the dungeon. This means that whenever the player is in their young state, there are enemies roaming about that will attack the player. The only solution, as the player has no way to attack, is to revert to their old state, resulting in more dynamic play as the player know has to use their ability to progress through the platforming but also as their one means to combat their enemies.
An Enemy Cultist
To download the game yourself, click the link to the itch.io page.