Royale Escape - Escape Room Alpha
About The Project
In Royale Escape, the player is a luxury train attendant who is dissatisfied with their life until a fateful day when the mysterious locomotive explosion causes the train to become a runaway. The player must solve problems to stop the train and save the people and friends aboard before time runs out.
Date
Oct 2023
Role
Game developer and artist
The
Game
In Royale Escape, the player is a luxury train attendant who is dissatisfied with their life until a fateful day when the mysterious locomotive explosion causes the train to become a runaway. The player must solve problems to stop the train and save the people and friends aboard before time runs out. This escape room alpha was created as part of the Unreal Engine Technical Artist certification at Vertex School.
Train Environment
Luxury train and terrain mood board
My mood board to help create the atmosphere of the game’s environment.
Moving the Train
As an experiment in game mechanics and environment physics, I put the train cars on a spline path so that they could move along the track while the player walks around inside the cars.
In general, this method did not work well for player maneuvering as the physics of the cars moving and the player within them caused the player to clip through doors, furniture, and outside of the train itself.
When I continue working on this game, I will try another way of simulating riding a train.
Puzzles + Challenges
The main puzzle was an emergency brake control panel. The player needs to solve 3 puzzles on the panel, with the help of their train handbook, and find a key that would enable the emergency brakes. Below are screenshots of my Blueprints for the Simon puzzle.
