Molten Mayhem

CONTROLS

Left mouse button click, or touch.

INTRO

You are a proud member of the god-hand stone people, it is your duty to be sacrificed to the boulder gods since it has been discovered that you are composed of only 4% basalt, which is not enough to live on in the community.

As you move closer to the gods you rely on your bright shining god-hand to light the darkest depths of the volcano of sacrifice.

SCORESPACE JAM

(1) A requirement is to have a leaderboard. The leaderboard is implemented. It supports many scores. And it has a rudimentary swear-word filter.

The game is survive-the-longest partly due to the leaderboard. A simple story-driven game where most people finish is typically not leaderboard-driven.

(2) The theme is "the floor is lava" so the lava was custom made using Unity's shader graph with noise and colors and a glowing effect.

(3) This particular jam encourages everything be made from scratch (more so than other jams). Everything in this game was essentially from scratch. Only used resource (besides what is built into Unity) was the swear words list. Or probably samples for the music submitted by Anton. But even the textures are not from images, but procedurally generated.

FIRST COLLAB

Rheia - Voices:

https://rheia.itch.io/

Fun Gaming? - Rock man model:

https://itch.io/profile/fungaming51

Anton Mikhailov - Drumming track:

https://itch.io/profile/antonmikhailov

Oliver - Lava

And the game itself.

RESOURCES

Name swear word simple check:

GitHub - mogade/badwords: regex driven list of badwords (for filtering, duh!)

POST MORTEM

This went down to the wire, as there were issues with Unity. I guess continuous build and deploy is a great idea (at least if you're using Unity), since building kind of broke things, and 3 or 4 things just didn't work after building and required fixing.

Before the broken build, the title screen had glowing lights, the voices had audio filters on them and sounded different. The initial music had a filter (before entering the cave). The lighting was different. And the leaderboard background was different.

Although when I first built, it wasn't even playable. So I fixed most of the issues that randomly appeared after building. Some of them included, the build somehow decides to change what camera is active in scene and then that choice somehow makes it into the game editor itself and doesn't stay limited to the build. The editor allows broken models, but when you build, the build breaks. So you have to go in and clean up broken models.

I was VERY close to not submitting, and just holding off till next jam, given all the Unity build issues. But it got to a mostly playable state that wasn't what the original game was, but it was 90% of what the original was, so I submitted it.

THANKS FOR PLAYING