Lue Fang
Game Designer, Programmer, 3D Art Generalist
The Sudoku Sink
Overall Background
This is a 4-week game design project produced by the Death Noise Studio. Sudoku Sink is a Sudoku redesign by combining the traditional Sudoku game and the traditional battleship game, aiming to redesign the traditional Sudoku game in a more interactive and playable way. It is a multiplayer game which treat the Sudoku board as the battleship board and aim to solve the Sudoku puzzle in order to sink the other player’s ship. The video below is a play-through and overview of the game.
Death Noise Studios
I was mainly responsible for programming and assisted with sprite animation and world building.
Team
Yanlin Chen
Lue Fang
Meena Yuko Gupta-Iwasaki
Nazli Uzgur
Sarah Wang
Software: Unity
General Game Design & Feature Highlight
Plot & Character Design
In order to incorporate the two game together better, we designed a background story for the game. In the game, captain sudo and captain doku are lifetime rivals on the sea. However, both of the captains are masters of camouflage, since they are good at hiding their ships from the enemies sight. Players would play the game on behalf of the two captains to solve the sudoku puzzle in order to predict the coordinates of the hidden ships.
Sample Sprites of the Captains
Ship Placement
Like traditional battleship game, players has to place their ships onto other people’s board. Player could select and drag the ship to place the ship and use the space button to rotate.
In-Game Mechanics
Players take turns to attack the other player's board. Each player initailly has 30 seconds to attack, but has 30 - 45 seconds to attack depending on their answers on the last round. There are three different state after the player place a number: Hit, Miss, Super Miss.
Hit
When a player correctly guessed a number on the sudoku board and it is a spot covered by a battleship, it is considered as a 'hit'. The player will get extra 15 seconds and an extra round to attack the other player's board.
Miss
When a player correctly guessed a number on the sudoku board but it is not a spot covered by a battleship, it is considered as a 'miss'. The player would lose the chance the guess, and the other player gets 30 seconds to attack.
Super Miss
When a player guessed a number on the sudoku board wrong and it is not a spot covered by a battleship, it is considered as a 'super miss'. The player will lose the chance to attack and the other player gets extra 15 seconds to attack.
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