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[allen]

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Inspired by		Description You crashed and wrecked your ship on a strange planet. Find an escape.

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My second game for this comp. Thanks to increpare for linking me this script on the unity forums and playing his latest game I was reminded of this cart. Without that I probably wouldn't have had the inspiration to make this.


extended post competition version: http://alllen.tumblr.com/post/935465191/

[allen]

I decided I would go ahead and finish it. The premise is mostly the same but it's no longer a 3rd person platformer. Finished it last night and a few hours today and didn't have enough time to hunt for bugs, but hopefully there aren't any major ones.

Should take 15 minutes to beat. There's a radar in the upper left corner if you get stuck. You really won't need it though.

[Theta]

Nice vector graphics!  The ship from 2001:  A Space Odyssey was perfectly rendered in wireframe-form.  (I like how the sound effects were from that movie, too).

Platforming was a little hard and felt imprecise, but most of this comes from the fact that it is 1st-person.

[allen]

I just fixed a completely huge bug that wouldn't show the ending when you found all three items. Hopefully I fixed it. So stupid I didn't notice it earlier.

Yeah platforming in 1st person isn't that intuitive, but as long as you take your time and not rush it should be fairly easy. The ending isn't too special (though I do like it) so you aren't missing much anyways.

if it's confusing, the only goal is to get the four items. the last item doesn't appear until you get the first three, and it's in a very accessible place.

[Wilson Saunders]

The particle FX and sky box really added to the creepy atmosphere, but beyond exploration there really isn't much to do. 1st person platforming is hard, you could have made it 3rd person by removing the Camera components from the "Main Camera" in 1st person controller prefab, and attaching another camera to the "Main Camera" only set back to view the player object.

How did you make unity start up without displaying the screen size options?

[allen]

Yeah I know how to make it third person, I just don't want to. Would kind of defeat the purpose of the atmosphere and the kind of game I was going for. Would also make the sound effects silly (the breathing and the oxygen hiss).

Plus it's not that hard, it's just not ideal. There are two endings and not much is different, so if you find it too hard just jump off the map.

and as for disabling the res dialog:
go to edit-project settings-player and then disable the display resolution dialog

cool shot of the end:
spoilers dont click if you dont wanna be spoiled

[astrofra]

Gosh, that was the famicase I wanted to adapt in the first place !
Too bad I can't launch the game on my PC, either is browser or win standalone

I'll try it tomorrow at the office. 

[Melly]

allen, you should remove the shot of the end. Surprise people man!

also, this was a really pleasant surprise. It was amazingly atmospheric, and using the sound effects of the movie fit extremely well. Like it's been mentioned, the platforming was pretty tough, but I pulled through. It got really tense when getting the item outside the continent. I did NOT wanna plunge down into that ocean of colorful madness.

It looks amazing. A really good job.

[allen]

ha thanks, you're right I removed the img and made it a link instead.

after a few complaints I decided to re-enable moving the character along with the platforms. so it makes it a bit easier, especially when getting the piece over the water.

[Oddball]

It seemed to spend an eternity with a blank screen and just the sounds playing. I actually thought it had hung for a moment. The subtle changes were nice as you collected the pieces. I didn't get the piece over the water. After a couple of fails I gave up as the game went back to that lengthy blank screen each time.

[miconazole]

I had the same problem as Oddball. I also found it really frustrating that you had to walk on the platforms to keep from falling off given the difficulty of platforming and the 30-second wait if you fall into the sea. It's a shame since the game looks great and I would have loved to finish it!

[Melly]

He made you guys have to walk on the platforms to keep in them?

Why would you do that allen?

[allen]

I had the same problem as Oddball. I also found it really frustrating that you had to walk on the platforms to keep from falling off given the difficulty of platforming and the 30-second wait if you fall into the sea. It's a shame since the game looks great and I would have loved to finish it!

that was in an older version. the one in the torrent and all the builds now you move along with the platform so you dont have to keep up, making it considerably easier.

[allen]

Since I didn't have time to finish the ending for the competition, I made it as a completely separate companion piece. if you are interested in playing it, I put it here  

At the recommendation of ortoslon, I just added it to the main game as an extended post-comp version. the links are different from the original comp release and you can grab them here:

http://alllen.tumblr.com/post/935465191/

[Melly]

Mysterious!