Benjamin Foster
Trailer
Type: Team Project
Software Used: Unreal Engine 5.5, Adobe Illustrator
Genre: Pinball 3D Platformer
Steam Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3667070/Dillos_Dilemma/
This project is a level I'm making for an in-development platform game called Dillo's Dilemma. Dillo’s Dilemma is a platforming game starring an Armadillo named Dillo. In Dillo’s Dilemma, the player uses unique rolling movement and pinball-like structures to rescue fireflies from within the fortresses of rats who have invaded the woods. Once Dillo enters a fort, the rats will attempt to latch on and overwhelm him. With enough speed, he can smash through the rats and disperse them- thus, the challenge of the game is placing the pinball-like implements wisely to carve a path for Dillo to maintain high speed while navigating the fort. In between forts, Dillo explores large, open overworlds filled with secrets and collectibles.
I used a farm theme for this level, so naturally there are barns, silos, and most everything you'd find on a wheat farm.
Walkthrough
Summary
Dillo’s Dilemma takes place in an unnamed, wooded area with sentient and civilized woodland creatures. Dillo is an engineer hailing from the Armadillo Village. Energetic, optimistic, intelligent, hardworking, but naive, Dillo has plans to revolutionize armadillo locomotion and make life easier for his community. Lacking the funds to do so himself, he accepts a research grant from the Rat King, the leader of the nearby Rat Kingdom. The Rat King agrees to fund Dillo’s research with a selfish and secret ulterior motive - to use Dillo’s locomotion machines to build a giant pinball machine for his own personal use...
Dillo Begins his adventure within the Farmland, where the rats have taken occupation by building forts throughout the land to maintain their dominance. Dillo must navigate the Farmland and tackle these forts, using the rats own architecture against them, to save his firefly friends. By using BLINKOs (Ball Launching Infrastructure for Navigating Key Objectives), which Dillo created for the Rat King, he must be able to avoid the occupant rats and succeed in saving the day!
Constraints
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Unreal Engine 5
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Staying within the Art Style Guide for the rest of the game
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Using assets from specific Asset Packs
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Platformer genre: Appropriate framework to facilitate gameplay in this genre.
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Utilize our Pinball pieces to help enhance the speed and rolling gameplay
Layout
(Early Version)
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Quest Overview
Step 1:
Start at entrance and begin to go through tutorial area
Step 2:
Run through tutorial area, encountering obstacles and BLINKOS
Step 3:
Encounter the 1st tutorial fort and save the fireflies!
Step 4:
Navigate through the 1st farm and reach the main road to get behind the barricade.
Step 5:
Explore the 2nd farm and make your way down the Bumper Field, leading on to the 2nd fort.
Step 6:
Encounter the 2nd fort and save the fireflies!
Step 7:
Climb the hilltop to the Lookout point, where you can use your newfound Spring BLINKO to cross the river
Step 8:
Cross the river to explore the Mansion and surrounding areas
Step 9:
Take the ramp down from the Mansion or one of the other paths, and check out the Village
Step 10:
Cross back over the road to explore the 3rd and final Farm area
Step 11:
Progress to the 3rd fort to attain the Key that the Rats are using to block the path to the Rat Kingdom
Step 12:
Use the Key from the 3rd fort to open the lock and proceed on to the final fort
Step 13:
Tackle the 4th and final fort in the Farmland
Step 14:
After defeating the final fort, climb over the final wall and advance through the pipe which leads to the Rat Kingdom
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