Daidalos: Maze After the Fall [demo/prototype] (2021)

Daidalos is a top-down 2D exploration game with horror and survival elements, set in a dark and unforgiving world, that collapsed because of human greed and political manipulation. You will find yourself as the seeker of civilization, brave enough to lead the last priestess of the fallen city through the mazes to safety. Exploring the mazes, you will slowly reveal the history of Daidalos' world.

We want to raise a mysterious, horror feeling in the player just by exploring the maze, knowing nothing about it. Players should be curious to explore the maze and try to solve this puzzle while feeling vulnerable because of the lack of knowledge about weapon effectiveness against each type of monster. Players should experience the feeling of greed, wanting to use as many lilies as possible, which has a lot of downsides. Accomplishment should be felt at the end of each maze revealing more story and learning more skills, which drives him to solve the next puzzle (maze).

UNIQUENESS:
Daidalos could look as a common top-down 2D game at first but these are the main points that will distinguish our game from the others:

⤠ Uniqueness of each maze, giving the player possibility to play the game over and over again encountering different situations
⤠ Fast-paced combat and learning systems
⤠ Self expressing-audio, allowing player to know important information beforehand e.g. positions of the monsters before being able to see them
⤠ (in the future) Immersive story giving player more sense of what he is doing and why is he doing that

CONTROLS:
Movement: WASD | ←↑↓→
Action: E | Use: F | Map: M

Attack: left-click (M1)
Block: right-click (M2)
Change weapon: middle mouse wheel

ABOUT THE TEAM:
Crawlmind was formed from students of the Game Development course at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University. We are two programmers from MFF UK (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics), one graphic designer from UMPRUM (Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design) and one sound designer from FFUK (Faculty of Arts), with the help of our mentor Vlado Spevák. Please note this is just a prototype / demo version which was made during the course. We will appreciate any feedback for our future plans with this game.

Jakub Stacho (MFF UK) – lead programmer, game + story designer, leader
Daniel Šipoš (MFF UK) – programmer, story designer
Jakub Kozelka (UMPRUM) – lead artist, game + story designer
Kristýna Sulková (FFUK) – lead sound, VFX designer, story writer