Steelsilk Championship | BigRock 2024

by AleDAN, AndreaZoccatelli3D, AntonioLecci, DarioSebastiano, Dib4rt, FilippettoMauro, FrancescoChiari, IlCigo, LorenzoNardelli, LucaDolcini, MarcoRomoaldi, MattiaMerzari, MrFear, QMSYITA, SimoneVero, SlasherThings, giuliasemenzato, jady1750, khaaeri, miv3rse, and p1tto on 1 Jun 2024 for Rookie Awards 2024

Catapult yourself into the dynamic and dazzling universe of Steelsilk Championship! Prepare your bot and compete to win the grand prize offered by the IMFL! A game made in three months by the Master 37th of Bigrock !

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Steelsilk Championship | BigRock 2024

by AleDAN

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Welcome to the 37th edition of the yearly robotics challenge, hosted by the IMFL in every part of the globe since 2980.

Participating in the contest is no easy feat; each pilot must be aware that the technological skills required to overcome each stage are becoming more demanding with each passing year.

This time the competition will be held in Italy, upping the stake in the grand prize

So what are you waiting for ?

Grab your tickets for this yearly edition of the "Steelsilk" championship event !

Steelsilk Championship is a fast-paced, isometric-view, Roguelite co-op game for two players.

Players will dive into the game's three arenas, fending off multiple swarms of increasingly difficult enemies coming their way!

Each stage has a fixed timer of two minutes. After this period, an elevator ascends in the center of the area, providing an escape route to the next arena. Players can choose to stand their ground in the current stage to gather more scraps and points for their high score, but IMFL will send even more bots their way, including much more powerful Elite units.

While waiting in the elevator for the next stage, players will have the option to choose a tier perk from a randomly given selection of three cards. Additionally, enemies will receive a passive perk modifier highlighted in red.

If players succeed in each stage, the game will come to an end and display their final high score and total acquired resources.

The game was developed as the thesis project for the Game Master 37 course at Bigrock, created over six weeks by 23 students. Since the recent announcement of The Rookies Awards, we have had the opportunity to continue polishing the game and squashing various bugs with a limited team of 15 people.

We hope you enjoy the final product as much as we did!

- Two playable spider bots classes [Tank or Agile]

- Three distinct arenas, each featuring new types of enemies

- A dynamic tier perk system to improve your abilities

- Passive modifiers for enemies that enhance their offensive capabilities

- Elite units [Tougher and meaner enemies]

- Local Highscore tracking !

- Unlockable bots patterns/palettes with in-game currency [Scraps]

Introducing Decoy and Arachne, the hero characters of Steelsilk, their designs mirror the appearance of their respective robots.
To align with this concept, we retained the colors, shapes, and details from each robot to reflect these elements in their human counterparts.

We applied the same method of mirroring bot details in their human counterparts to the IMFL's builders as well, ensuring a consistent theme throughout all the character designs in the project.

The various biomes players will encounter are crafted as holograms within an artificial arena. Each environment is designed to fit within a square area, visually demonstrating from the conceptual stage how the levels will appear from a distance.

The UI designs are inspired by early 2000s rhythm games like Beatmania, featuring an abundance of metallic components and bold, aggressive lighting effects.