Cost of Vigilance

SUMMARY

• Role: Programmer
• Status: Completed
• Team members: 1
• Duration: 3 Days
• Jam Theme/Prerequisite: Future/Everything at a cost
• Engine: Unity

Description

You play as a vigilante trying to stop the city of crime. But the police are on your tail. Manage your resources and try to survive without being caught for your "altruism". Do you spend time prepping your actions, or do you remain passive?

Screenshots

My Contribution

Taken from WWE TCG (prematch), the idea was to have decisions available that would affect the game environment. So basically Batman Arkham. But yeah!

• Light System - Day Night Cycle
• Visual - Post Processing
• Controls - Topdown RTS style camera
• Gameplay - Tutorial + Introduction, GameManager, Decisions
• UI - Scene, Settings, Menu, Gameplay HUD

Reflection

This game jam was very experimental. I wanted to try out the idea of a simulation game, but the game interacts with the player based on their decision. It is inspired from WWE TCG where the prematch mechanic allows the field/setting of the game to be different from every game based on your decision. So as a vigilante, your actions will affect how the police and the mobsters react.

As a solo, I managed to get the main systems in, but I did not manage to implement the environmental reaction part of the game. It would be a cool small project to continue. You can read more about my thoughts here!

Features that were implemented

Decision

• Scriptable Objects to hold common data

GameManager

• Tracks the current state of the game.
• Whenever a player makes a decision, adds to the current state of the game (current alert, current vigilante, decisions made, etc.)