Solve puzzles together, collect four keys in every section, unlock the big door, and climb 25 floors toward the top of the tower.
Ascendant Trials is a puzzle adventure made by the 0r!g!ns team, a four-member group of first-year EPITA students.
Players climb a vertical tower by solving cooperative puzzles, crossing traps, collecting four keys across each section, and opening the big door waiting on the fifth level.
The adventure is built around mythology. The first tower mixes Greek mythological imagery: the Underworld, the Labyrinth, dangerous monsters, and sealed doors that test the team's coordination.
Work together, time jumps, split roles, and solve puzzles as one team.
Climb through five themed sections, each with its own mood and challenge.
Find four keys across a section, then open the big door on its final level.
Four key-bearing floors lead into a final door level in every section.
The current build covers five sections, private rooms, puzzle timing, and key-gated progression flow.
Players coordinate movement, timing, endpoints, hazards, blinking blocks, and sliding platforms.
Create or join private rooms with generated codes, ready states, host flow, and shared level starts.
Collect four keys across each realm before reaching the final-level door.
Every fifth level closes its section with a large door unlocked by the keys found before it.
Four first-year EPITA students building one cooperative tower adventure.
Marine Maillot also contributed to the project before leaving the team between the first and second technical defense reports.
Level mechanics and website
Support: level design, character design, GUI.
I am Adam Glemet, a first-year EPITA student. Since I discovered web development for my ninth-grade internship, I’ve always been interested in computer science because I already had a passion for video games, so I took NSI specialty in high school where I could develop alone small one-month projects in Python and a website group project in HTML/CSS.
Level design and SFX/VFX
Support: level mechanics, NPC AI, tower and dungeon system.
I’m Antoine TONNOT and I am a first-year student in EPITA. I love coding and coop game. I also regularly play piano. I started coding in Python and then moved to C# a few years ago. I started coding during the 3rd year of high school.
Networking, loot system, and GUI
Support: basic logic and texturing.
My name is Antonin Beliard, and I’m a first-year EPITA student. I’ve been building tech projects for years, including robotics, small web tools, and mobile apps; so, I’m comfortable turning requirements into something that actually runs.
Basic logic, tower system, and texturing
Support: loot system, networking, animation.
I have always been passionate about computer science and new technologies, which is why I chose to study at EPITA. The year-long academic project offered by the school allows me to explore new fields and to work under real professional conditions, within a domain I partticularly enjoy. Despite my previous experience in video game development, notably using Lua, I continue to learn every day through this Python-based project developed with the Ursina engine.
Everything needed for the final presentation is kept in one place: the playable package, project reports, level design annex, library notes, and contact email.
Windows build package
Windows is the required target platform for the project.
First defense report
Second defense report
Third defense report
Level design annex
References and libraries: Python, Ursina, WebSockets, and FastAPI.
contact@ascendant-trials.com
Feedback helps the team polish the final build before the interview.
Play the game
