Maladie

Maladie is an alternative history, 2D platformer game based in World War 1. The goal is to deliver medication to the Western Front for your sick French comrades. Throughout the course of this game you will fight healthy and infected German soldiers, doing everything in their power to stop you from getting back to your French comrades. As you move along through the game you will travel to four different locations as you pass each level. These levels being a run down town, a gas filled sewer, a forest behind the battlegrounds, and no man’s land.  

In its conception, the game’s intent was to create a complex but simple platformer game that offered a different perspective and alternate version of history. In its present form, we have been able to create a simple but challenging game that provides a sense of uncertainty, yet provides the player with a mission and goal in mind. By creating this alternate version of history, this provokes us to think about an extended version of World War 1 while also dealing with the potential complexities and hardships armies could face with a rampant sickness that extends its reach around the globe.

Guide

To move, use Left and Right arrow keys to move back and forth, and use Spacebar to 

jump. Avoid German Soldiers and Infected German Soldiers while collecting Syringes through each level. 

Game By

Company: “Pixel Perfect Projects”

Jacob Carpenter 

Peter Daniel 

Kalib Thomas 

Ezra Myers 

David Harless

Sources Used

Battle of Verdun by Briticanna

The War in the West, 1914 by Briticanna

Why Was the Battle of Verdun so Significant? by Amy Irvine

The Great War: The WW1 gas mask in the trench warfare inferno by GazDetect

WW1: What Caused Verdun to be the Longest Battle of the War by BBC Teach

What was Medicine Like During World War One? by the BBC

1918 Influenza Pandemic (Spanish Flu) by the Cleveland Clinic

Making Sense of the War in France by the Cleveland Clinic

A Brief History of Chemical War by Sarah Everts