Tomb of Avarris

Inspiration

We took inspiration from Jackbox games we played over the pandemic, as well as rpgs such as Dungeons and Dragons. I also took some thematic inspiration from Darkest Dungeon.

What it does

The game is a multiplayer comedic dark fantasy rpg-themed party game. The core mechanic is using one of your collected treasure items to solve a problem with a creative or interesting solution. The other players vote on the best answer, and the better you do the more gold you acquire and the more choice you get over the next treasure item. The player with the most gold wins.

The game contains 12 unique character classes with their own appearance, description, item, and power. It contains a number of unique scenarios each with a modified ai-generated pixel art-style image, it contains a number of unique items with their own description and adjective modifiers that can be applied to them. Rooms also contain a random feature such as a firepit that players can use in their solution with its own description and image generated in the same manner.

How we built it

The frontend was built as a dynamic site, to ensure a continuous WebSocket connection. The backend communicated with this from pYthon, doing the main logic of the application.

Challenges we ran into

Time management and integration of parts was our main challenge this weekend. It was difficult to integrate the backend with the frontend, althouh we did eventually manage this with little time to spare. We had other features we wanted to have but didn't have the time.