OZ

In my 2nd year at Cali we were to create a 2D platform game based on one of the short novels in the book 'SUM' by David Eagleman. Thus 'OZ' was created. Within the short story of “OZ” in the novel 'SUM'  you are given the chance to meet your creator however you must overcome various obstacles including : Fear , Self-doubt and Self-Pity, this gave us the start of our game and we used this concept. We used three characters in the movie OZ; The Lion, Tin Man and The Scarecrow, the player had to switch between characters to progress through the level. For instance The Scarecrow cant defeat enemies due to 'Fear' so you must switch to The Lions to beat the enmies and there are various platforms that character cannot stand on creating a challenging game as you have to know which character to switch to to progress in the level.

As in the Novel this journey is not a pleasant one, all the levels were created to a dark atmosphere to give a sense of terror and that this is a nightmare scenario. The levels were created on tiler and it was a difficult project for the team as it was software that no one had used before but we worked with what we had and the end product was ok to say the least.

Have a look at the video to see our trailer with some gameplay aspects.

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