The Lost Champions
What is The Lost Champions?
The Lost Champions is a puzzle game developed with the Unreal Engine 4. The players take the role of a Druid, a Mage and a Warrior who have to find their way back home. Every character has their own unique ability: the Druid can jump, the Mage can create a magic shield in front and on top of his head and the Warrior can attack enemies. Players can use just one character at the time and they have to swap among them in order to interact with the level.
My experience
As a designer, I was asked to create a level for the game. The first thing I focused my attention on were the powers the characters have and how I could complement each of them with one another, creating a synergy that the players could feel and enjoy throughout the level itself.
This is why the first two areas were created to teach the player that the characters can be distant from each other but must operate together in order to overcome the challenge.
The player is required to lift the Druid and Mage with an orb that can be activated just by the Warrior.
Area 1 and 2 in detail
In the next areas I keep on iterating on the same idea of asking the players to have one of the characters moving further from the other ones but never be able to access a new area without having the other two following and helping. In this particular area I exploit the Druid jump ability to create some platforming challenges.
Area 3 and 4 in detail
In the last area I decided to ask the players to keep the characters together in order to face the last challenge, a sum of all the challenges the players have faced before, thus testing them to demonstrate what they have learnt throughout the level.
Area 5 in detail