Music Puzzle
This short level was created in 2 weeks using the Unreal Engine. The theme behind this level was "puzzle". There are plenty of video games that have puzzles in them. Some of them focus on logic such as Dishonored 2's Jindosh puzzle lock while others might focus more on observation such as the Riddler challenges in the Batman games. I wanted to try to create a puzzle that focused on observation and a bit of music. The result was placing the player in an escape room where the player had to look for clues to find the right notes to play on the piano in order to escape.
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One of the challenges I faced while creating this level was choosing the music I wanted the player to play. There wasn't a lot of time to make the level so I had to choose a short, simple, and basic song. I also had to choose a song that did not have a lot of variations in notes so that players would not have to use every single key on a keyboard. The song that I chose in the end was Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. It's a song that is possible to play with only 6 notes where anyone would be able to recognize the tune.
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Another challenge I faced was that despite there being only 6 keys that the player could play the piano with, it was still very much possible that a player would not know what to play. My solution to that was to place music sheets all around the room. The sheets that the player could observe would be highlighted when the cross hair was over the item. Each correct music sheet that the player observed would place notes on a notepad HUD that shows the players the correct sequence of keys to play.
