Octane - Search for a Star 2019 Submission

What is Octane?

A fast paced action focused shooter/platformer where you play as a capsule because capsules are cute. The  general premise is to just be a demo of what could have been developed with more time (this level took a week - including all assets, animations and programming). With more time maybe I could create a full length game. - I don't know if I will continue with this project or move onto new things but hopefully you'll find what I've made fun for a few minutes. This was made for a programming focused competition however, being the perfectionist that I am, I had to ensure that the other elements of game development were also showcased - hence the original assets and focus on visuals.

Features:

• Nice visuals (if I do say so myself).
• Dynamic camera 
• Platforming sections
• Top-Down shooter sections
• Vehicles (a biped robot thing)
• Boss Fights
• Powerups (slowmo, extra damage and explosive bullets)
• Wave mode
• Minimalist UI 

System requirements are fairly high. This is because lots of realtime lighting is used. If I had a more powerful PC i may have used baked lighting which is much faster but it takes my CPU around 12 hours to bake a lightmap for a level of this size so I had to go for realtime lighting. 

Recommended for 4k:

1080ti for 60fps (tested)

Recommended for 1080p:

1060  for 60fps (probably)

Once again, this is just a quick demo to show what I'm capable of . It took about a week. All models and animations are original created by yours truly and all music and sound effects are royalty free. I gave it my all on this one so I hope someone likes it. I decided to go for quality over quantity given the time I had so the campaign can be beaten in about 5-10 minutes. I added in a wave mode last minute in order to increase the replay value but the campaign is the part that I spent the majority of my time on.

I haven't had much chance to balance the difficulty but I think it's quite fair as there are plenty of checkpoints and powerups to help you along. If you don't manage to beat it then please watch the gameplay video as it shows the full level in all of its glory.

Sorry if you find bugs, I tried to iron them all out but this project ended up being pretty ambitious for the timeframe. 

Controls:

• WASD - movement
• LMB - shoot
• E - Interact with robots and turrets

PowerUps:

• SuperSpeed (glowing lighting symbol).
• Extra Damage (brass rifle round).
• Explosive bullets (glowing red rifle round)

Regenerate health by killing enemies - this is to keep you moving and playing aggressively.

Enemy Types:

• Basic - deals damage on contact with player
• Ranged - shoots projectiles at player
• Explosive - (glowing red) - explodes on contact with player causing high damage
• Turret 
• Dragon - a boss with several moves and lots of health

Accessibility Notes:

• Contains flashing imagery
• Only supports keyboard and mouse

CHECK OUT MY OTHER GAME RESONANCE -  I haven't worked on it in a good few months due to uni obligations but it was my first full game and is a 3 hour linear survival horror.