Firefighter Dudez is a local co-op game designed by a team of 4 over a 3 week span as part of our Experimental Games class Junior Year. I was responsible for environment modeling, texturing, and building levels in Unity.
In Firefighter Dudez you and your friends play as 4 extreme firefighter action figures trying to save civilians of a burning cardboard house. With a limited amount of time and only 4 tools at your team’s disposal only through working together can you evacuate the whole building in time.
Inside the building the smoke from the fire will cloud each player’s vision. You will only be able to see a small radius around you. Players must work together using the 4 tools to locate and evacuate the victims who will be rendered immobile by the smoke. Once a victim is found, players must carry the victim to the far left side of the building and throw them out a window to safety below. The game will end when either all the remaining victims are saved, all the victims are killed, or all the players are killed.
Tool Mechanics
Hose: You’re firefighters, someone has to have water to put out the fire. This tool sprays water in a cone to put out fire on the building, on victims, or on your fellow fire fighters.
Drugz: Firefighting is dangerous business and sometimes people are gonna get hurt. This tool is used to spray medicine to heal injured players or victims so they stay alive until they can be carried to safety.
Bridge Builder: Sometimes the fire is gonna burn through the floor, but you still need to get through to save people. This tool lets the wielder build a bridge over those holes so everyone can get across.
AR Headset: There’s a lot of information you need to effectively fight a fire. This tool lets the wearer see the location of victims, weak floorboards, and locked doors through walls and the smoke. It also lets you see the health of players, victims, doors, and floors.
No Tool / Carrying Victims: These future tools are heavy. Too heavy to wield them and carry victims to safety. So you can only pick up and carry a victim to safety if you drop whatever tool you were holding.
Controls
Player 1 is on Keyboard, 2-4 are on controllers (controls given here as Xbox controller buttons)
- Pickup & Drop Tools – Keyboard: Down Button / Controller: A
- Bash Doors in with Tool – Keyboard: Right Button / Controller: B
- Use Tool Ability – Keyboard: Left Button / Controller: X
- Carry & Throw Victims When No Tool is Equipped – Keyboard: Up Button / Controller: Y
- Left and Right Movement – Keyboard: A&D / Controller: Left & Right on Left Stick
- Use Staircase – Keyboard: W&S / Controller: Up & Down on Left Stick