[Released] Superdimensional - Ludum Dare #30

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Check out the game I made for Ludum Dare #30. It ended up winning the 48h compo category!
The theme was "connected worlds".

Its a bit of difficult to explain what it is exactly. The idea however is to navigate through overlapping worlds using your mouse. No keyboard needed.

I also wrote a blog post of how the rendering was setup.
You can read it here

 

Played the game yesterday. Really really neat concept. Good job!

 

Awesome concept! Love the art direction as well. How did you manage the interaction between the different worlds?

 

Congratulations, very nice usage and thanks for your blog entry!

 

Very cool game and great blog entry! The multi-camera depth-mask technique you used is pretty much how I did the dynamic split screen camera in my current project!

I have a couple questions if you have the time.

1) how did you handle the "player" collisions? My guess is that you had 3 separate objects and had only one active at a time depending on what world was being rendered at it's position. The other objects would have there collision and movement disabled and simply follow the position of the activate one. Am I close?

2) Really loved the art! What was your workflow?

Anyway huge congrats on the win! It's unbelievable that this was done in such a short time

 

Glad you liked it!

1) For collisions I simply had player character raycast to current mouse position and then change the character's collision layer accordingly. So for example if the raycast from mouse to the ball hit world1 teleport then I'd swap its collision layer to world1. I also set each layer to ignore all the other layers. So now that the player was using world1 layer, it would completely ignore all the other layers.
Of course it would not work properly when the player is half way between two worlds but it was pretty rare corner case I simply ignored.

2) Art process was really basic. It was nothing special really. I simply modeled 15 or so rock silhouettes and re-used them everywhere. I didn't use any lights except for ambient light which gave me the flat look.

 

Thanks a ton for sharing! collision solution is very nice, seems obvious after you explain it lol