Developed In: Unity
Genre / Theme: Endless Corridor Style Shooter
Features:
Multi-Platform
The game can be played on both PC and Android. The controls for the game on PC is mouse movement, and screen touch on Android
Core Game Mechanic:
The core mechanic of my game is a car that’s fuel depletes, and it drives forward. This fuel depletion is visually represented by the shrinking of the player and the fuel bar at the top of the screen. The cars fuel can be refilled by collecting fuel cans which are randomly spawned on the road. If you let the car shrink too much, it breaks down and the game ends.
The car moves forward down the road itself, but the player must control its side-to-side movement.
Power Ups:
The game contains different types of randomly spawning pickups, such as ammo refills and speed boosts. These can be collected by driving through them.
Enemies:
The car is equipped with a turret on the roof, this turret will shoot at a constant fire rate as long as its ammo isn’t empty.
The player must also avoid bullets fired at it by randomly generated enemy turrets. The players bullets can destroy the enemy turrets, but it cannot destroy the static obstacles. This forces the player to move the car around the round, instead of just staying in the one place and shooting everything in their path.
Obstacles:
There are two types of obstacles in my game: a solid cop car and a barrier.
If the player collides with either obstacle, they die however if the player is small enough, they can go under the barrier instead of around it.
Controls:
On laptop/desktop, the player controls the car using their mouse, moving left and right to move the car to the side.
On mobile, the player controls the car using their finger, swiping left and right.
The biggest difficulty I encountered was the car clipping into the road. The reason I encountered this bug in the first place is because, both the car and the road have colliders attached them. While this wouldn’t normally be a problem, due to the odd shape of both the road and the car model, both the car and road had box colliders attached to them instead a mesh collider, making the car appear to be sitting exactly on top of the road and not hovering over it meant that these two colliders were very close to each other, and if they did collide with each other, it would cause the car to flip over.
How I went about fixing this problem was first to apply a physics material to the road that essentially removed all friction between the car and the road. I also froze the cars rotation on all planes and its transformation on the Y plane, stopping the car from flipping over or spinning out if it did collide with the road.
I also tried to make sure the box colliders on the both the car and the road were as exact as possible, with no unnecessary space between the edge of the collider and the model itself.
If I had more time, I would have added different types of enemies and power ups. I also would have refined the animations of the different models in the game.
I also would have put more time into the user interface and object models. As I was limited by time and money, I only used the free assets I could find online. Given more time I would have created my own models using a software such as Blender.
Mobile
Desktop
