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Dungeons ‘n’ Diapers<\/a><\/h2>\n

We were pretty happy with the theme, and decided we would do a platformer game based on shadows and the imagination of a very small child. Everything else came about by exploring the basic idea of one player having two roles\/worlds to interact with, in parallel.<\/p>\n

The concept behind the game is that Zeno, a baby, sees real world objects as monsters he can fight. His imagination is reflected by shadows. <\/p>\n

Play Dungeons ‘n’ Diapers<\/a><\/h4>\n

\"Tiled:<\/a>

Tiled: our level editor of choice.<\/p><\/div>
\n So by using the shadow warrior and interacting\/attacking the other shadows, Zeno interacts with the real world, so your shadow is responsible for creating a safe path through the level. For example, a tree can be felled to bridge gaps by defeating its corresponding shadow, the skeleton.<\/p>\n

As you can see we got some of the mechanic down, but naturally our vision entailed a lot more than we could achieve. For instance, the shadows should attack the players shadow, but they pretty much just stand there. Also, we had a ton of ideas for puzzles, and some end of level bosses… Alas we may save them for a post dare version.<\/p>\n

Bugs<\/h3>\n

Moon walking<\/strong>: <\/p>\n

During testing we found that certain key combinations caused the shadow to moon walk. Not necessarily a bug, just some missing logic in the control code. We decided to leave this in, it was kind of fun.<\/p>\n