The Tower - A Master's Thesis Project
A downloadable game for Windows
Made by:
Marek Cernak
Orestis Lianoudakis
Supervisor: Staffan Björk
3D stealth-based point-and-click game prototype developed for the research purpose of Master's Thesis. Thesis focus was to explore Design of distinct personalities for NPCs with consistent and believable behaviour in stealth-based gameplay. For the design exploration purposes, we developed a computational personality model for AI based on the research by Shvo, Buhmann and Kapadia presented in their article An Interdependent Model of Personality, Motivation, Emotion, and Mood for Intelligent Virtual Agents: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3308532.3329474
In this prototype demo you play as Fergus, a man who wakes up in the middle of a dark cellar in a pool of wine. He realizes he is in a very peculiar tower. Ascend with Fergus up the floors to discover the secrets of the tower while avoiding pesky ghost guards along the way. Don't let the similarities of the guards fool you. They have their own weaknesses and strengths and you as the player must try to understand in what they're weak against and what they're strong at. Progress through each level, and get a hit about what mysteries are behold in the tower.
This is a point and click stealth game. Simply click to move around and interact with objects. You can pick up objects and place them down by pressing E. You can also crouch at specified locations by pressing the right mouse button down.
Assets Used:
Icons
Icon of man in Fedora: http://getdrawings.com/man-in-fedora-silhouette#man-in-fedora-silhouette-15.jpg Modifications: Background color change, added bit of black on top of hat.
Icon creepy man: https://favpng.com/png_view/portrait-drawing-slenderman-deviantart-drawing-creep... Uploader username: icabola
Girl icon: https://stock.adobe.com/images/silhouette-of-girl-in-dress-pigtails-vector/14371...
3D Models
Guards: https://3dexport.com/3dmodel-zombie-butler-115325.htm
Player: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/humanoids/the-hunter-stylize...
Environment: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/dungeons/ultimate-low-poly...
Music
Background music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/ofelias-dream
Fonts
Caligraphy pen: https://www.dafont.com/calligraphy-pen.font
Download
Install instructions
Simply download the zip file, extract it and run the executable file. Make sure all files are in the same folder. If you seem unable to run it, try it with antivirus paused. which is very shady, we know, but we have experienced this issue ourselves and we don't really understand why. The executable tends to get in quarantine for suspicion.
To play the game simply click the left mouse button to move around. To crouch at the specified locations hit the right mouse button when at them. You can grab objects with left mouse button and place them by hitting the E key.
If you've played the previous version we rolled out on this game please make sure to press the "what's new" button at the main menu to see details about the changes we made since the last demo.
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