The Spooky CrustMAZEcean

This a high-stakes game you can play with friends! You play as a diver trying to escape an underwater cave. Or, you join as the hunter. The owner of the labyrinth trying to catch a diver for dinner.

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Inspiration

We wanted a stressful but fun game that could capture the fear that Halloween is all about. We chose the cave setting and the crab antagonist because we agreed that drowning in a cave would really suck, and crabs are super freaky in a bizarre unexplainable way.

What it does

6 friends can join together to play a game of cat and mouse in an underwater labyrinth. 1 is the hunter the rest are the prey trying to escape. It is hosted online. Three games can be played at once on the server, with 6 people per lobby.

How we built it

We built it over Unity with C#, sharing progress over GitHub. Servers were hosted by Photonpun

Challenges we ran into

Routine algorithms to make mazes were a pain in the neck. Unity and Github are sworn, enemies.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The maze works! The art is also really cool and we're proud of it. The online also works which is dope! We can make rooms and join them as intended.

What we learned

Unity is more difficult to use alongside Github compared to other software. Like a lot harder. But that being said we did learn how to coexist with it (sorta). 12 hours is not enough time to do what we wanted to do.

What's next for The Spooky CrustMAZEcean

Polish up the game!

  • Perfect our spawn points within the procedurally generated map.
  • Add all the outcome screens, (Player death, Hunter win, etc)
  • Make sure animations work according to input (bubble animation, crab animation, death animation, etc.)
  • add audio (folley art, dialogue)
  • Implement our fonts throughout and colour scheme throughout the project.
  • format home screen buttons
  • Add in our loading/instructions/lore screen
  • Add perimeter view scripts
  • Etc. there is a lot we want to do. We got really invested in the project and bit off way more than we could chew.

All the art and sounds in parentheses are done already, just not implemented. So are the loadings/outcome screen. As well as our perimeter script.

To try the game clone our repository and open "CrustMAZEcean.exe" then click insert name type a username to join the server, then click on make room and put a code (can be whatever just no more than 10 characters), 5 other players can join you online, by entering a username, and clicking join room and putting in the code you made previously. Once everyone is in the game the host will press K to initialize the map

Once in-game everyone moves with WASD the divers search the map for the exit, while the crab tries to kill em' by pressing left click when close. The crab can also restart the map by pressing K again.

Our video doesn't show our minimal viable product but our executable in Github is our minimal viable product.

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