On this project, I was tasked with making a simple text based game using the game maker, Twine. I then decided to make a text based dungeon crawler, where the player would explore a dungeon, fight monsters, and solve puzzles. The player's controls were limited to clicking hyperlinks, so I decided to take a narrative approach to the gameplay. The player has controls allowing them to do the following: move on through the dungeon (or choose a path), look around the current room, check their inventory, and check their health.

Choosing to continue simply moves the player to the next room. Looking around the room serves as a narrative aid, helping the player further understand the encounter in their current room. When looking around the room, the player is provided with extra information about the room they are in, as well as sometimes activating an extra encounter. As for checking inventory and health, the player can see what items they are in possession of and also a rough estimate of how healthy they are.

For the combat in the game, I decided to make a turn based system that uses RNG to determine if attacks land. The player clicks to attempt an attack, and has a 67% chance of landing the hit. When the enemy is attacking the player, the player can either dodge the attack with a 67% success rate or block the attack with a 75% success rate (only knights can block).

For the layout, I wanted there to be multiple paths that can lead you to the end, so regardless of the path chosen, the player will end up at the final encounter. Despite the various branching, the progression is still linear since there is no backtracking or revisiting rooms. Each room is completely unique, featuring an encounter found only in that room.