Sutherland weaves a hand-drawn world into an environment that responds through light and color with orbital mechanics. Explore an ambient world full of unexpected intricate patterns as you affect your immediate surroundings as an orb of light. Navigate gravitational currents described by naturally flowing trails, with the ability to repel and attract gravity. This simple game mechanic allows players to explore the movements of orbital mechanics with the ability to correct a path without breaking the flow.
I'm slowly gaining confidence that this is a game people like and would enjoy a longer experience with. I got some great feedback yesterday on reddit where other developers played and enjoyed the demo.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/6uf69c/feedback_friday_251_great_ideas/dlst17f/Please go ahead and try out the demo and let me know what you think. It's in webgl, so you can just play it in your browser. The game is built in unity and runs fine on every platform I've tried (iOS, Android, Windows)
https://bakajo.itch.io/sutherland-demoI also put together a gameplay trailer that I hope conveys some of the ideas in playing. It's homemade, so don't expect anything fancy.
If you like it or hate it, please let me know. If you are interested, I could share some of the development processes and how we got this prototype.
I'm the programmer, I've got several years of Software Engineer experience in business systems, but games has always been my secret desire, that I've only recently allowed myself to realize. My wife did the art, that's why it looks so damn good. She has an MFA from SUNY-Buffalo. We also have a composer that wants to do the project to make music that better fits the feel of the game.
We can do some really cool stuff visually in the game, like this tribute to the eclipse that we created this morning.
https://twitter.com/StudioBakajo/status/898941530571890688If you like it, let me know and I'd appreciate anything you're willing to do to help me make noise with the game. If you don't like it, I'm always happy for ways I can improve it.
[email protected] press to repel, release to attract
use gravity to collide with gravitational sources
explore gravity through movement and find hidden sources