Together

Together is a co-op adventure game where the 2 players have a simple task; Find the relics, find each other, leave through the portal.

When you spawn, your character is nearly invisible. Your Spirit is low and to get it up you need to collect more. "Spirit" is your characters HP, mana and perceivably to enemies. As you collect more Spirit, your health goes up as does your mana, but enemies are able to notice you easier so you need to manage your Spirit in order to proceed in the game.

As you walk around the game world, you will see various unique landmarks that will help you convey your location to the other player. You need to use these landmarks to have any chance of finding each other so you can attempt to retrieve relics that are in difficult to reach places...

Relics are both a key and a source of power. Different relics in the game grant the user special powers that can be used for infiltration, defence, attack and distraction. Relics also have Spirit as their energy source so upon the use of powers, Spirit must be collected when empty. However, you have the ability to add/remove Spirit from your character to the Relics so you can manage Spirit and also, in times of need, get a top up.

Enemies in the game have heightened senses. Some can track scents, some can see for a mile, some can hear a pin drop in a forest. All of the enemies can be fooled however. Scents can be masked and passed on, decoys can be deployed, and noises can be made to pull enemies away and sneak past them to get to wherever you need to be. You need to be careful with the enemies as they are very strong and can be made even more powerful if they are in the possession of Relics. The powers of the Relics can be used by enemies and different types of enemies gain different advantages from the Relics.

Enemies have an objective in the game also. They want to build a stronghold and the only way they can do this is to use the Relics. Their stronghold has a central control point where a relic is placed in order to power the building process. Enemies will take retrieved Relics to this control point to accomplish their personal goals so you need to beware patrolling enemies who are looking for the same thing as you.

Features (So far)

Procedural Map Generation: Using a combination of different random algorithms (Sobel Distribution, Perlin Noise) assets (Trees, landmarks, etc.) are placed to create a spread out and well distributed map. Map generation data is saved and sent over to the other user so the same map is generated. This method makes much shorter loading times compared to fully serializing the map.

Never Ending Levels: Walking in a single direction will eventually lead you back to the starting location. The world wraps around so that you will find familiar landmarks and not get lost in the world.

Volumetric Lighting: The world of Together is a vague, creepy and mysterious one. Volumetric fog adds atmosphere to the bleak forest and just makes the game look awesome.

Steam Networking: Together will be sold on Steam. Multiplayer networking synchronies player interaction in the game and provides a seamless experience.

Enemy AI: AIs in the game will chase you if you come too close. If they sense that you have a relic, they will do something a lot worse!

Platform: Windows

Languages/Technology: C#, HLSL (Shaders)

Work Period: OnGoing

Type: Collab