The Grand Adventure of Elroy the Unipus

Elroy lost seven of his tentacles! Now he must decide who will help him on his quest for revenge!

Quirky adventure/maze game that I created with the help of one artist in 15 weeks
I created it as an experiment to see how narrative affects how players’ actions
- Throughout the game, Elroy is pulled in three opposite directions from different non-playable characters on what he should be doing
  - General Fishkins wants him to grow back to full health so he can rejoin the army
  - Mindy, a snail that “loves” him, tells him to stay with one tentacle due to how cute it makes him
  - Elroy himself would like to eat crabs, which make him temporarily invincible, but all the other characters tell him not to<
  - What will influence you the most: fitting in, love, or doing things for yourself?
- Some players don’t care about the story and just do things that will get them through the challenges
- Most actually set harder challenges for themselves just to make a certain character in the game happier
The story involves Elroy having seven of his tentacles being bitten off by a giant Tiger Shark leaving him as a weak Unipus
There is about an hour or of fun interesting gameplay
- Navigating Elroy around obstacles and fighting enemies
- Puzzle solving
  - Opening gates in the correct order
  - Finding correct paths to outrun a huge whale
  - Timing when to move past an enemy
- Three unique and “epic” boss fights

Create a game that can experiment with how the storyline of a game affects the player’s actions

Players are most definitely affected by the storyline, some more than others
The game takes about 45 minutes to beat and has many memorable characters and fights in it