As a part of my final year project, I have created a platformer game called Dream Strike where the player is able to customise their abilities that allows for unique playstyles. The game itself boasts cool mechanics, careful ability management, exceptional level design, challenging bonus stages, hilarious sound effects and a quirky tone without straying too far from its genre.
Once file has been downloaded, please extract the .zip, enter it's directory and double click on DreamStrikeFinalYearProject_Windows if you downloaded the Windows release and DreamStrikeFinalYearProject_Mac if you downloaded the Mac OS X release:
Windows Release - http://www.mediafire.com/file/08kczo8o7g5o3hz/DreamStrikeFinalYearProject_Windows.zip
Mac OS X Release - http://www.mediafire.com/file/ydypr0y1myep7yz/DreamStrikeFinalYearProject_Mac.app.zip
| Action | Keyboard | XBOX360/ONE Controller |
|---|---|---|
| Start Game | Enter / Return Key | Start Button |
| Walk Left* | Left Arrow Key | Hold Left Analogue Stick Left |
| Walk Right* | Right Arrow Key | Hold Left Analogue Stick Right |
| Jump* | Z Key | A Button |
| Attack* | X Key | B Button |
| Cyber Slam* | C Key | X Button |
| Pea Shoot* | V Key | Y Button |
| Mayonaise* | Down Arrow Key & Z Key | Hold Left Analogue Stick Down & B Button |
| Open Menu | Enter / Return Key | Start Button |
| Move Menu Cursor | Arrow Keys | Left Analogue Stick |
| Equip or Unequip Ability | Z Key | A Button |
| Exit Menu | Enter / Return Key or X key | Start Button or B button |
| Exit Text Prompt | Enter / Return Key or Z key | Start Button or A button |
- When opening the executable you will be presented with a setup window before opening the game; the optimal way to play the game is to set the screen resolution to 1280x720 and the graphics quality to "Fantastic", anything else may cause positioning problems for the UI or make the game too fast
- It may take up to two minutes or more to load the level from the title screen due to its sheer size, unfortantly I was unable to put in a loading bar so please do not exit the program, it just takes a long time to open the level
- To check what abilities you have, open the menu and look at the icon, a darkened icon means that the ability is not equipped where as bold icons are equipped
- On the upper right corner of the menu there are two numbers seperated by a /, the left number indicates how many dream points (DP) you are currently using, the right number shows how many you can use; this is important because equipping abilities will cost DP
- If the player gets stuck and they cannot move left or right while their respective abilites are equipped, either Cyber Slam into any nearby wall or use Mayonaise to move freely again. If you don't have either of those abilities you may need to restart the game
- If you are within a bonus stage and you are teleported outside of it before obtaining the item, you will need to restart the game as the camera will be stuck
- All music in this project has been provided by https://www.bensound.com, however I do claim ownership of the sound effects used