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Remake of a TIGSource [AGBIC]'s game

As a longtime fan of TigSource's Contests, I sometimes have regrets when finishing one, because there usually are hundreds of rad ideas going out of this amazing community. That said, during the 'A Game By Its Cover Contest', I sort of fell in love with Allen's contribution : 2061 (codenamed Vector Planet).

Find the original thread of Allen's game here.

Allen's game was made with Unity3D, and the result was so stunning (both on a visual and audio point of view), that I wanted to remake it with my fav' tool (gamestart :))

There are really a few line of codes of my own in this mockup (70 lines of code, max), as most of it is handled by the Builtin scripts and/or the engine.

Typically, here, this game relies on :

  • A FPS controller, that handled the camera motions, target, with mouse & keyboard, and the collisions.
  • A lens flare, made with a builtin as well.
  • The platforms are scripted with a simple switch to move them back & forth.
  • The audio is a builtin too, fading (or not) the volume according to the distance.
  • The rendering was achieved with a mix of flat shaded polygons & wireframe on the top of it. A Bloom post-process added the final touch.

There's one interesting point in my opinion here : the Jetpack sound fx.
To add this to the existing FPS builtin, I used the inheritance feature, that derives the original builtin into a new script. 

  1. class	JetPack extends BuiltinCharacterController
  2. {
  3. 	vel		=	0.0
  4. 	chan	=	0
  5. 	sfx		=	0
  6. 	vol		=	0.0
  7.  
  8. 	function	OnUpdate(item)
  9. 	{
  10.  
  11. 		base.OnUpdate(item)
  12.  
  13. 		if (KeyboardSeekFunction(DeviceKeyPress, KeySpace))
  14. 			vol += g_dt_frame
  15. 		else
  16. 			vol -= (2.0 * g_dt_frame)
  17.  
  18. 		vol = Clamp(vol, 0.0, 1.0)
  19.  
  20. 		MixerChannelSetGain(g_mixer, chan, vol)
  21. 	}
  22.  
  23. 	function	OnSetup(item)
  24. 	{
  25. 		base.OnSetup(item)
  26.  
  27. 		chan = MixerChannelLock(g_mixer)
  28. 		sfx = EngineLoadSound(g_engine, "sfx/sfx_jet.wav")
  29. 		MixerChannelStart(g_mixer, chan, sfx)
  30. 		MixerChannelSetGain(g_mixer, chan, 0.0)
  31. 		MixerChannelSetLoopMode(g_mixer, chan, LoopRepeat)
  32. 	}
  33. }

I'm quite happy of the result. Here's a screenshot below.


vectorplanet


Feel free to download both the 'game' itself and the sources (see the links below).
You will probably need the Beta5 at least to run the sources.

A huge thanks to Allen that kindly accepted to share his original sources, and let me made this version available to the community.