Summary
Viral Impact is a 2.5D action roguelike that playfully promotes social inclusion and digital resilience. Set in levels inspired by social media, players combat online threats and help characters using a dialogue system that emphasizes tone and empathy. Designed for care clients with intellectual disabilities, the game was co-developed with experts and users to ensure psychological depth and accessibility. While educational at its core, Viral Impact feels like an immersive, cozy adventure — a safe space to explore and practice online behavior.
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Tutorial Levels
The first few levels are meant to guide the player throught most of the mechancis of the game. These go thorught the movement, combat and finally the dialogue.
WhatsApp Level
The firsr area is inspired by WhatsApp. I have designed and redesigned these levels from 2D Sketches, to first itterartions and the final version. They resemble a small traditional rougelike levels, with a bit of a personality, inspired by real life swamps.
Instagram Level
While not as developed as the first level these ones were inspired by the app Instagram and its more dimmer colour pallet. They were also designed to represent generic rogue-like levels, but this time they were meant to represent a mushroom forest.
Dialogue System
Finally to tie everything togheter I have designed a dialogue system that is a little more entertaining than just choosing an option. The player has the sentce splti in two parts. Each part has multiple option, leaving the player to choose which ones fit togheter the best. This was a great way to explore subtility within text messages. The player is incentivies to do good because this is how they recieve an upgrade to help them in combat.
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