Paper Pals

Papers Pals is a fast-paced, dynamic 1-4 player party game that blends cooperation and competition on your way to victory. Through the use of unique and cute characters, you must overcome various puzzles, solve challenges, and defeat enemies in order to beat the evil Paper King and save the day.

Paper Pals is designed to mirror other party games such as Mario Party and Castle Crasher where individuals can gather and enjoy their time together and create lasting memories.

Controls:

Keyboard:

• Movement - WASD
• Aiming - Mouse
• Attack - Left Click
• Item Ability - Right Click
• Character Ability - Left Shift
• Jump - Space
• Pause - Backspace

Controller:

• Movement - Left Stick
• Aiming - Right Stick
  
• Combat Ability - Right Bumper
  
• Item Ability - Left Bumper
• Character Ability - B Button
• Jump - A Button
• Pause - Start Button

Characters:

Fox: 

• Weapon - Using their two knives, they can stab enemies for quick damage 
• Special - Using their dash ability allows them to get a quick speed boost and do a slash with both knives

Frog: 

• Weapon - Using their kunai, they can hit enemies from far away 
• Special - Using their tongue ability allows them to get quickly across the map by zooming to other players/enemies

Owl: 

• Weapon - Using their staff, they can hit multiple opponents with a gust of wind 
• Special - Using their flight ability allows them to soar into the air and then slam down to damage enemies

Turtle: 

• Weapon - Using their hammer, they hit enemies slowly for big damage 
• Special - Using their shell ability allows them to spin around themselves and the hammer to damage enemies 

Rooms:

Combat Rooms:

• Animals, Attack - Destroy the enemy crystal before time runs out.
• Crystal Defender - Defend your crystal from waves of enemies until time runs out.
• Horde Combat - Defeat all the enemies before time runs out.
• Survive - Remain alive until the time runs out.
• Zone Capture - Stand on each of the Zone Points long enough while keeping all enemies away.

Puzzle Rooms:

• Compass Blocks - Slide each of the blocks to their compass locations (N block on the top, E block on the right, S block on bottom, W block on the left) and leave the icon block in the center.
• Flicker Maze - Pay attention to the maze while it's visible and use the arrows to navigate the blinking tile to the rotating star.
• Sword Spin - Navigate through the room using colorful tiles to reach each sword positioned in the corner. Walk over the tiles to make the swords face the center of the room. Use tiles of the same color in different sections of the room to move between them.
• Tile Trouble - Change all red tiles to green. When a tile is stepped on, it changes its own color as well as the colors of all adjacent tiles, but not diagonal tiles.

Minigame Rooms:

• Beach Ball Bash - Attack each of the beach balls to pop them. Pop each of the beach balls before time runs out.
• Runaway Trains - Pay attention to the blinking tracks and avoid all the oncoming trains. Don't get hit before time runs out.
• Splatter - Run around the room to paint the canvas on the floor. Try to be the player with the most paint when time runs out, but make sure the paint meteors don't cover more of the canvas.
• Sweeper - Dodge the sweeper arm by carefully calculating when to jump over it as it spins in circles, slowly gaining more and more speed. Don't fall off before time runs out.

Development team:

Austin Edwards: Project Lead, Lead Level & Technical Designer, Programmer

Tyler Johnson: Lead Programmer, Systems Designer & Programmer,  Level & Technical Designer

Steven Gast: Character Programmer, Gameplay Programmer, Technical Designer

Nate Bryant: Lead Character Artist & Animator, Character Designer

Brett Ingram: Multiplayer Developer, Lead UI Programmer, AI & Systems Designer

Ariel Escobar: Lead UI Designer, UI Programmer