Trick of the Light is an experiment in strategic game design based on imperfect information in a unique fog of war setting. A hybrid of real-time-strategy, role-playing-game and roguelike genres, the game challenges players to maintain an expansive base system without being able to see anything beyond their own limited vision radius. All units, allied or enemy, maintain private memories about what they have seen, and must directly exchange information to keep up to date. The player acts as commander, making decisions and giving orders while dealing with adversaries, sabotage and misinformation. Testing was done to see if the new concepts could be understood in-game and garner any interest for further development, which proved to be positive in both cases despite complaints related to having less direct control over allies.

Creator

• Mason, Zackery

Contributeurs

• Moriarty, Brian J.

Degree

• MS

Unit

• Interactive Media and Game Development

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Language

• English

Identifier

• etd-042918-153912

Mot-clé

• Fog of war
• Unshared vision

Advisor

• Moriarty, Brian J.

Defense date

• 2018-04-20

Year

• 2018

Date created

• 2018-04-29

Resource type

• Thesis

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Dernière modification

• 2021-01-08