Soulitude

Soulitude was created during the Collaborative Junior/Senior Games Development module at Staffordshire University, during two three-week development sprints (January 2022, May 2022)

Description

Soulitude is a top-down rogue-like dungeon crawler game. The player is tasked with defeating enemies, navigating dangerous dungeons, and dodging treacherous traps in order to obtain a wide variety of loot, and find the entrance to the next dungeon level, hopefully being one step closer to making their escape.  

Soulitude’s gameplay follows a rogue-like structure, with the player having to navigate procedurally generated levels to collect treasure whilst fighting through ceaseless hordes of enemies. This is in order to acquire more powerful weapons and armour, and therefore take on bigger threats that the dungeon’s many levels may present to them.  

As the player descends deeper into the dungeon, the power of enemies will exponentially increase, escalating difficulty over time, but also upping the assortment of rare and more powerful loot that can be found along the way. Players venturing into the dungeon’s depths may stumble across various bosses that will stop players in their tracks by burning them to a crisp or smashing them to smithereens, forcing them to start again. Mysteriously back at the dungeon’s entrance. With nowhere to go. Except back down, into the dungeon. 

The team

Tech

• Flinn Fraher
• Thomas Worrell 
• Harry Reader 
• Shivam Parab 

Art

• Cheyenne Burdue
• Ben Smith
• Freyja Weller
• Lauren Taylor
• Sam Anderton
• Mateus Lorenc
• Sophie Lambrou

Animation

• Ciaran Procter

Design

• Tyler Timlin
• Callum Brownsmith
  
• Olivia Cross
• Lindo Nzama
  
• James Paulson