DayBreak

DayBreak is a platformer game done by two students for Development Subject in Videogame Design and Development carreer of CITM at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

The game is about an alien that must escape from his planet because humans have arrived to conquer and started to destroy everything. But it’s not that easy, in his path he will find enemies that will try to kill him and he will have to find his way out from places that have active/unactive platforms that obstaculize the path to success.

DayBreak is done with Tiled program, has 2 levels and save/load support. Also, the game supports pathfinding for enemies.

The game is licensed under an MIT License.

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Github Repo: DayBreak

Developers

Lucho Suaya

• IA, pathfinding, FPS/time control & Save/Load
• Github @lucho1

Roger Leon

• Art, Music, Levels, Game Design, Entities & UI
• Github @rleonborras

Game Main Core

The structure was made with modules that manages different elements of the game. Each one has, appart from their own, common methods for awake, preupdate, update, postupdate and cleanup. App is a module that manages all the others and it calls all that methods making each module work when it must.

All regarding to game metadata (paths of assets, character and enemies characteristics…) are loaded with XML files to avoid hardcoding, avoid confusing code and build an easier work flow.

UI System

For the UI system, we would liked to make a system similar to the Entities one, but we didn’t had much time and we had to adapt the UI needs to the time we had.

UI system has a base module which works as a manger for all the UI Elements. From here, we build a header to generalize the UI elements that has a UI_Element factory that assigns, from an enumeration, a type (for example, button) and a logic (for instance, play or load) for each element. Then the UI_Elements are created mostly from the Scene module and added to a list of UI_Elements.

The appropiate module (the one that needs to create a UI Element, for example, the scene), will perform element’s physical logic knowing it’s type and the logic that must do. This system must be improved and it’s on the way.

As you may see in the image, each element has a pointer to its parent, so we set a hierarchy or a tree-like structure.

Innovations

• Platforms that must be activated or deactivated to pass the level
• Textures Flipping
• Player characteristics loaded from XML file.
• Player and enemies shooting
• Music made by us from other base music

Gameplay & Instructions

You must pass through each level and get to the door that will take you out!

Move left and right with A and D keys and jump with W. You can also shoot with SPACEBAR.

Each 2 flyer enemies killed or each walker enemy killed, you have one more coin! Also you can get 5 score points from flyers and 10 from walkers. Can you beat your own record?

Test yourself to pass the level in the minimum time possible with the highest score!

To pass each level, there are some platforms that are unactive. To activate them and be able to pass over them, you must press a button! Those platforms can be also obstacles that must be deactivate by passing through the ray in order to pass the level.

ESC key inside the game pauses it and opens an in-game menu (also you can use the button in the corner).

• Settings for Debug purposes

F1 - Start from level 1

F2 - Iterate between screens

F3 - Add 1 coin

F4 - Add 10 score points

F5 - Save the Current state

F6 - Load previous state

F8 - UI Debug mode

F9 - View Colliders/Logic and Enemies Pathfinding

F10- God Mode

F11 - Enable/Disable FPS cap to 30/60

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Credits

Lucho Suaya Leiro Roger Leon Borras Music by Lucho Suaya Leiro based on other music from Kevin MacLeod & Lobo Loco Art bought from diverse libraries