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title: 'Sun Valve'
url: 'http://simon.com.mt/games/sun-valve'
markdown: 'http://simon.com.mt/games/sun-valve.md'
date: '2011-12-14'
description: "Sun Valve is an exploratory narrative game that takes place on a small Canadian island in 1892. The player plays the role of a lighthouse keeper by the name of Conrad, and all seems well until something goes wrong. Suddenly, things don't look the same any more... Sun Valve was"
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  category:
    - 'Digital Game'
  tag:
    - programming
    - design
    - udk
---

# Sun Valve

## [Sun Valve](http://simon.com.mt/games/sun-valve)

    14th Dec 2011   [programming](http://simon.com.mt/blog/tag:programming#body-wrapper) [design](http://simon.com.mt/blog/tag:design#body-wrapper) [udk](http://simon.com.mt/blog/tag:udk#body-wrapper)  

*Sun Valve* is an exploratory narrative game that takes place on a small Canadian island in 1892. The player plays the role of a lighthouse keeper by the name of Conrad, and all seems well until something goes wrong. Suddenly, things don't look the same any more...

![](http://simon.com.mt/user/pages/games/sun-valve/sun-valve.png)

*Sun Valve* was created using the Unreal Development Kit for the *Game Design* course at the IT University of Copenhagen. It was made using a team of 6 people (calling ourselves *Scylla & Charybdis*), and I was mainly focused on the programming side of things. I used 3 different programming languages while making the game including *UnrealScript*, *C++* and *ActionScript*. I also made use of *Kismet*, the flowchart programming paradigm within UDK.

The game's main idea revolves around the use of a moral dilemma, and in particular, we chose Robert Nozick's ["experience machine"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machine) thought experiment.

Some screenshots that were taken of the game while during development may be seen [here](http://imgur.com/a/3g8Yy#0).

We intend to continue working on the game by polishing the already existing bugs and tweaking the existing features, and eventually releasing it to the public. Therefore, it is still a **work-in-progress**.

Download the [design documentation](http://simon.com.mt/files/sun-valve/sun-valve-design-documentation.pdf). (40 pages, PDF)

Download the [usability tests documentation](http://simon.com.mt/files/sun-valve/sun-valve-usability-tests.pdf). (7 pages, PDF)

Download my [individual reflection](http://simon.com.mt/files/sun-valve/sun-valve-individual-reflection.pdf). (17 pages, PDF)

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