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POLARITY

Event: BAFTA Young Game Designer AwardsDate: Thursday 22 June 2023Venue: VirtualHost: Inel Tomlinson-Area:

Polarity - Max Whistlecraft (14)

Simple graphics but high speed “Boss Rush” style fighting game using polarity switching to block and attack enemies based on the periodic table of elements.

POLARITY has high action and simple graphics with a scientific theme. Its core gameplay concept is the ability to switch between polarities like those of a magnet. There is a positive and a negative pole which can be used to attack and defend. The Bosses you fight also have the ability to use these poles to attack you.
Let's say your opponent is using the positive pole to attack. You can use your positive shield to stop their attack from reaching you the same way two magnets with the same pole will push away from each other. When you use your shield you consume a stamina bar at the top right of your screen.
The bosses have blue vulnerable areas that have a negative polarity. Each boss is based on an element of the periodic table e.g. Tin would look like an old robot toy, Neon would look like a futuristic spaceship and Calcium would be a giant skeleton. The main goal is to beat the bosses one at a time moving up in the order of the atomic number of the element they represent. You will have beaten the game when there are no more bosses to fight.