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---
title: "Sinkie Soldiers"
description: "Keep control of the castle, but more importantly: your armour."
date: 2024-03-15
updated: 2024-12-12
image: { url: "EsTSQ3.jpg", alt: "Sinkie Soldiers Logo" }
categories: ["personal"]
tags: ["unreal engine", "blender", "gimp", "fl studio"]
extraAuthors: [{ name: "Sam Griffiths", url: "https://samgriffiths.dev" }]
---

**This project was previously only a game jam submission but very soon it will be polished up and published onto [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3368860/Sinkie_Soldiers)!**

If you're interested in looking at our original [submission](https://troylusty.itch.io/sinkie-soldiers), it was done as a part of the [Ukie Student Game Jam 2024](https://itch.io/jam/ukie-student-game-jam-2024), in which the team consisted of myself and Sam Griffiths. The jam ran for one day from 14 Mar 2024 9:00 AM to 15 Mar 2024 5:00 PM.

![Sinkie Soldiers Logo](EsTSQ3.jpg)

## Keep control of the castle, but more importantly: your armour.

Sinkie Soldiers is a local co-op versus game in which you battle against your friends for control of the castle! Your goal is to break down the integrity of your enemy's armour and finish them off to claim the victory.

The game is located on a kids bouncy castle play area and is based around what they might be imagining whilst playing there.

![Sinkie Soldiers Characters](screenshot-3.jpg)

![Sinkie Soldiers Environment](screenshot-2.jpg)

![Sinkie Soldiers Playtest](<MicrosoftTeams-image(3).jpg>)

### Rules

- First to reach 3 rounds wins
- Win a round by either:
  - Removing all the other players armour and eliminating them
  - Making the enemy player fall into the water below the arena
- There are pickups and random level modifiers included. Currently these are:
  - The Halo - One additional hit point
  - Slippery floor
  - Low gravity
  - Obstacle overdrive

### Controls

It is recommended to use 2 controllers.

- Movement - Left thumbstick
- Camera - Right thumbstick
- Jump - Bottom face button
- Attack - Right trigger

#### In menus

- Play - Bottom face button
- Quit - Right face button

#### Keyboard

- If playing on keyboard, WASD to move, Mouse to look around, and Left Mouse Click to Attack and select menu items.

### Third-party assets list

- [Animated Characters 2](https://kenney.nl/assets/animated-characters-2)
- [Bossy Enemy Animation Pack](https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/bossy-enemy-animation-pack)
- [Knicknack font](https://www.myfonts.com/collections/knicknack-font-great-scott)
- [Evil Empire font](https://www.dafont.com/evil-empire.font)
- [Punch Your Way Through MIDI](https://opengameart.org/content/punch-your-way-through)
- [man in red shorts standing near green plant stock photo](https://unsplash.com/photos/man-in-red-shorts-standing-near-green-plant-A0VqdVOv6c4)
- [Plastic 010 (the roughness map)](https://ambientcg.com/view?id=Plastic010)

### External links

[Jupi Plays Indie Games: ALL THE GAMES [Ukie Student Game Jam] [Part 3]](https://youtu.be/Jyz5dkrrdVI?feature=shared&t=315)