What are Dungeon Puzzles?

Puzzles represent key interactions with other characters and objects found within the dungeon. Including:

• Freeing Prisoners

• Battling Enemies

• Disarming Traps

• Opening Chests

• Opening Locked Doors

Puzzle Encounter Categories

There are four different types of encounters that’ll result in the player solving puzzles.

Prisoner Freeing Puzzles

• Puzzles themed around removing layers of bondage and disarming devices that are teasing and molesting the prisoner.

• Multiple puzzles to complete. Each puzzle completed is a piece of bondage removed.

• Once all bondage has been removed the prisoner is freed.

• A freed prisoner is teleported out of the dungeon after being freed. They’ll welcome the player back in town.

Enemy Engagement Puzzles

• Puzzles themed around taking turns against an enemy character.

• These puzzles will have some time-based tension to them.

• A player turn involves them trying to solve a puzzle. If successful an attack animation plays that binds up the enemy.

• An enemy turn involves them making an attack and draining the players stamina.

• The engagement ends when either:

  • The players stamina has reached zero.

  • The enemy has been fully bound and defeated.

• If the enemy is defeated, it’s removed from the dungeon floor and the player gets rewards.

Trap Disarming Puzzles

• Puzzles themed around disarming a mechanical device with a set number of turns/steps.

• If the puzzle is completed within a set number of turns then the trap is disarmed and the encounter ends.

• If the puzzle isn’t completed within a set number of turns/steps then the trap activates and drains stamina from the player.

• The engagement ends when the trap is either disarmed or activates.

Locked Chest Opening Puzzles

• Puzzles themed around disarming a mechanical device.

• If the puzzle is completed within a set number of turns then the chest is opened.

• If the puzzle isn’t completed within a set number of turns/steps then more stamina is used to replenish additional steps.

• The engagement ends when either the chest is opened or the player leaves the chest still locked.

Bypassing Puzzles

• Players will have the ability to bypass puzzles in:

  • Enemy Encounters

  • Freeing Prisoners

  • Disarming Traps

• It comes at an additional cost to their stamina.

• This extra stamina cost acts as a deterrent to use it more then a few critical times during each dungeon run.

• Contextually and narratively this is the player character using up more of their bind and unbind magic to brute force the situation.

Possible Puzzle Examples

Below are some possible examples of puzzles that could be used in Battling Enemies, Freeing Prisoners, Opening Chests and Disarming Traps.

These are an exploration of ideas but not a final list of the puzzles present in the game.

Sequence Input Puzzles

• Players press the correct key inputs in the correct sequence.

• a time or rhythm requirement could be added for increased difficulty.

• Could be used for: Casting Spells / Making Attacks / Unlocking Prisoner Bondage

 

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Avoidance Puzzles

• Players control on object on the screen in a constrained space.

• They must move the object around to avoid other objects moving on screen.

• Easy to increase / decrease difficulty through the patterns of objects moving around.

• Could be used for: Defending against enemy Attacks

 

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