what's going on here?


There's a lot of crazy here, and not a lot of structure to make sense of it. Here's what you're seeing:

the game starts with a montage, like an anime. A school girl turns around blushing as leaves blow around you and the music swells. Cut to President Higgins slamming his fist down on the oval office desk so hard everything flies into the air. Cut to an evil guy brushing his hair back and sneering before he shoots an arrow at Apple Computers office. Cut to reactor 4 melting down at Chernobyl, emitting a beam of blue light. Cut to hilter in a bunker screaming just before the door slams in our face. ... And the door falls towards us revealing nothing behind it. The set is gone. When the thick door hits the ground we see a map of the US on it's back.

This is the main menu. You can point at locations on the US map to start that level. Look around and you'll see bleachers full of fans, and 4 monolithic sports athletes ready to kick ass. Look up and you'll see hair options; click  one and all the athletes will now sport that look.

Once you choose a spot, that level begins. Each level would have started with the 4 athletes in a hot tub, talking about why they're there. Their balls (sports equipment) float in front of them about chest height. Then the tub would drain away and the level would begin.

You look down at your feet and use the trigger to draw a line planning out where you'd like to move. Press buttons to ready actions (attacks, spells, jumps, or sneaks). Then use the thumbstick to change to a different athlete. The one you left immediately starts down their path. This is the core gameplay idea : a tactical turn based strategy vibe, but in real time. First person, in VR. weee.

Each level would have you sneak up to a central boss. If seen, a small horde of easily disposable baddies is released.

anyway there was a lot more planned. but I didn't plan my time well. A couple days ago, I was still polishing the pathing/walking mechanic (never got Jump in there! much less double jumps). So i stopped and created a bunch of assets. and didn't even finish getting them all in there! oops. erg. blah.

Files

shirenoble_gamjamBuild.zip 35 MB
Jul 12, 2019

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