Aliens are kidnapping your crew! Explore the space ship and lead them to safety! But beware, your scanners are malfunctioning and will only update your map every 10 seconds - and enemies might lurk behind every corner.
Created by Christian Reuter, Florian Mehm, Moritz Neeb, Stefan Huebecker, Viktor Wendel at the Multimedia Communications Lab (http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de) at TU Darmstadt. Enjoy!
Nice game, good work. The lighting is great and the game certainly feels moody :) I found it a bit difficult - it often felt like I was getting hit without any warning, so maybe add some sound effect for when aliens are very near and/or when you're losing health? I also had some performance issues with this - quite a choppy frame-rate on both the web player and the downloaded windows version - but I've never had problems before with other Unity games. Still, great job overall - well done
However, be warned, it needs serious refactoring, right now it is pretty much spaghetti code. I did, however, take some time to add a lot of comments in order to explain the functionality.
Basically, the script randomly places rooms in a predefined raster. Then each room seeks its 'n' closest neighbors. After that, links are build between neighboring rooms going from left to right. Next, overlapping halls are replaced with crosses, tCrosses and corners based on neighboring halls. Fianlly, an adjacency matrix is calculated for each room, cross, and tCross which is used for pathfinding later.
You can specify the number of neighbors, each room establihes a connection to. If this number is too low, it is possible that some rooms are not connected as this is not checked yet.
I also had fps problems looking at ~90 degrees left from the starting rotation.
The map creation is interesting and the radar reminded me of the old AvP games, where the aliens could jump on you in between the updates.
Some notes: It took some time for me to recognize the doors (maybe something more distinct or slightly larger activation zones). And the HUD on top right did not fit with the rest of the visuals.
I liked the soundtrack, it fit in nicely for a space related game. The FPS is a bit low for some reason. It could just be the web version. I also noticed the 10 seconds was the refresh rate for the mini-map. it was an interesting concept.
You spent so much effort in the generation of the room, but you didn't think about the camera. It's too fast, i can't enjoy the game because of that...
Wow! Amazing graphics. First LD game where my PC can't keep up. :D The radar map which only updates every 10 seconds need some getting used to, but was a good way to integrate the theme. But overall I'm impressed!
The concept sounds pretty great. I just had some problems getting orientation in this space station. Due to the lags I often lost the direction I was heading to. It would be great if the doors you can use have lights, so you needn't try them all, if you lost the orientation. An arrow for the player symbol in the minimap would be great as well. Great atmosphere. Thrilling!
Oh this looks so cool! I tried the web version first and the mouse controls were really laggy for me. I thought downloading would help but I had the same problem. :( But still really cool, I liked the idea for the theme a lot, and you all managed to get a lot done over the weekend!
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http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de/~vwendel/RandomMap.cs
However, be warned, it needs serious refactoring, right now it is pretty much spaghetti code.
I did, however, take some time to add a lot of comments in order to explain the functionality.
Basically, the script randomly places rooms in a predefined raster.
Then each room seeks its 'n' closest neighbors.
After that, links are build between neighboring rooms going from left to right.
Next, overlapping halls are replaced with crosses, tCrosses and corners based on neighboring halls.
Fianlly, an adjacency matrix is calculated for each room, cross, and tCross which is used for pathfinding later.
You can specify the number of neighbors, each room establihes a connection to. If this number is too low, it is possible that some rooms are not connected as this is not checked yet.
The map creation is interesting and the radar reminded me of the old AvP games, where the aliens could jump on you in between the updates.
Some notes: It took some time for me to recognize the doors (maybe something more distinct or slightly larger activation zones). And the HUD on top right did not fit with the rest of the visuals.
Good job.
It would be great if the doors you can use have lights, so you needn't try them all, if you lost the orientation. An arrow for the player symbol in the minimap would be great as well.
Great atmosphere. Thrilling!