Tarot Knight 

Alt Controller Puzzle Game

Student project: Final Major Project (PG, Term 4)
Duration: 2 months

Project Type: Individual

Goals and Constraints:

• Theme:

  • ​Tarot Cards

  • Alt Controller Element

• Gameplay:​​

  • Chess Knight Puzzle

  • Enemy movement patterns inspired by each Tarot Card's Meanings

• Thesis Design Framework Integration:​​

  • The only constraint for the project required by the brief was that the Design framework made in the Thesis I wrote had to be used in the Game's Design or Development in some aspect. The following is the element I had to include based on my Thesis (Click Here for my Thesis)​

    • Emergence / Emergent Gameplay ​

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​​Project Brief:

For the FMP there were no constraints other than the inclusion of the Design framework extracted in our Individual Thesis submitted a month before the Graduate Showcase. The goals I had set for myself were the main driving factor behind the project and all the goals and minimum requirements were self-motivated. 

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Project Vision:

My goals were mostly fueled by curiosity and the challenges I had set for myself were to make a game with Tarot cards and have the players walk away with a Valid Tarot reading for themselves. The gameplay aspect had to be something familiar even if it looked intimidating, the idea was to use Tarot to draw people in and the Knight movement in chess to give them a sense of achievement as they solved the puzzle and revealed their own 'Fate'. The Chess mechanic was a way to keep the Tarot reading interactive and change the readings slightly based on which piece they took out first, which changes the order of the cards being revealed for each star sign and intern changing their reading, giving unique readings.