Remake of a TIGSource [AGBIC]'s game (2061 by Allen, namely)

Hi People,

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.

class	JetPack extends BuiltinCharacterController
{
	vel		=	0.0
	chan	=	0
	sfx		=	0
	vol		=	0.0
 
	function	OnUpdate(item)
	{
 
		base.OnUpdate(item)
 
		if (KeyboardSeekFunction(DeviceKeyPress, KeySpace))
			vol += g_dt_frame
		else
			vol -= (2.0 * g_dt_frame)
 
		vol = Clamp(vol, 0.0, 1.0)
 
		MixerChannelSetGain(g_mixer, chan, vol)
	}
 
	function	OnSetup(item)
	{
		base.OnSetup(item)
 
		chan = MixerChannelLock(g_mixer)
		sfx = EngineLoadSound(g_engine, "sfx/sfx_jet.wav")
		MixerChannelStart(g_mixer, chan, sfx)
		MixerChannelSetGain(g_mixer, chan, 0.0)
		MixerChannelSetLoopMode(g_mixer, chan, LoopRepeat)
	}
}

I'm quite happy of the result. Here's a screenshot (youtube capture will come...)

Feel free to download both the 'game' itself and the sources (see the links below). You will probably need the Beta4 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.