Design and development of a puzzle platformer game (A)

• Main Author: Manussawin, Sahassapon
• Other Authors: Wesley Tan Chee Wah
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Engineering; Game; 3D Graphics; Puzzle; Video game development
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/176872
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the 21st century, the video game industry has solidified itself as another mainstream entertainment. Among many narrative-driven games, the go-to way of conveying the story is with the use of dialogue like watching a piece of film. However, conveying narrative is never limited to just dialogues. This project aims to develop a side-scrolling puzzle-based platformer video game in a 3- dimensional setting while constricting the movement to 2 dimensions (2.5D). The goal is to provide the player with an immersive gameplay experience while conveying a story without the use of dialogue exchanges. This is achieved with the use of changing environments and colour adjustment in each scene to portray the emotions and theme of the scene. The story aims to have a soft structure, two players can have vastly different interpretations analogous to reading a poem. Moreover, it is the intention to shed light on the possibility of having Game Design and Programming Design Patterns included in the Information Engineering with Media syllabus on Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). Game designing is inherently object-oriented from its foundation, and with the ability to render object instances (Game Object), it can aid the following generations of students with understanding OOP concepts. Also, the incorporation of design patterns, can help the students to write more reusable code.