Hex Escape

Description

Hex Escape is a fantasy puzzle-platformer game that utilizes perspective. You play as a young hero and embark on a journey to find a way to escape. This platformer game consists of 3D environments and 2D characters in which the player must make use of the ability to switch perspectives (between 2D and 3D) to realign platforms, solve puzzles, and avoid the monsters.

Credits

The background music was borrowed from here. All of the other sound effects have been borrowed from Minecraft. We did not make any of them and do not claim to have made any of them!

Controls

• 'z' key to switch between 2D and 3D perspectives
• 'w', 'a', 's', 'd' keys to move around in 3D 
• 'a' and 'd' keys to move around in 2D
• 'e' to pick up objects within the environment
• 'esc' to pause the game

Team

Jake Camarao - Senior Computer Science (ICS) Student.

Deshay Clemons - Senior Computer Science (ICS) Student. 

Andrea Gutierrez - Senior Creative Media (ACM) Student. 

Development

We used a kanban style of development when creating this game. A link to the Trello board that we created can be viewed here. During our brainstorming phase prior to development, we utilized a Miro board to flesh out all of the ideas and concepts the group members pitched. That can be viewed here.

Early in development, our direction was more a JRPG-esque style of game, but it quickly evolved to grow into the puzzle game we created and have published today. Most of the progress was documented and can be seen in a YouTube playlist here.

Development and early brainstorming drawings/ideas can be seen below.