For my final project, I decided to make a riddle game. The story of the game is that the player is trying to escape a dungeon, and while the player is on their way to the exit, a monster mysteriously shows up. The monster then informs the player in order to survive, they must answer all of the monster’s riddles. The player will have three chances or lives to guess the answer correctly for each riddle. Otherwise, the monster will kill them. If the player guesses correctly, they will proceed to the next level, and the number of lives will reset back to three, making the monster angrier. The riddles will become more challenging as the levels progress. For the scope of this project, I decided to implement only nine riddles. The riddles will be randomly sorted within each difficulty level. If the player fails and loses the game, they can attempt the riddles again from the beginning (but the order of the riddles will be shuffled). I used the Bloodborne Soundtrack OST – Main Menu Theme to give the game an eerie ambiance. I also added more sound effects such that if the player guesses wrong, dies, or the “game over” message shows, etc., a sound will play respectively to respond to the situation to make the game more interactive.
Initial Sketch
Final Result
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