A few notes on Moonrays
Tee on 2013/09/08 23:41
of Tee-py17
This time early in the week I thought of an interesting idea that I wanted to try out. By now you may be tired of me saying that I had little time to work on my Pyweek game, but I do wish I had more time to expand on it. The result was a very short game very focused on what I wanted to try, with no other features. So in a sense, my game was made to prototype this specific idea. A tiny part of the game is to figure out what to do, which I think is fairly straightforward, but if you want to avoid the spoiler of knowing what you have to do you should play the game before reading this.
Here's a description of the idea and the game. The context was originally meant to be a horror game, though I didn't do much in that respect due to time. There's a creature hunting you who's invisible to your eyes (actually, in this prototype it is not fully invisible because I thought it would make it too hard to run away from it). However, a beam of moonlight doesn't pass through the creature. So the goal of the game is to use mirrors to create moonlight beams in order to track down its position. Once you've guessed a position, you can try shooting at it (shooting is limited).
I think I like the result. The beams turned out to be an interesting tool for a "being hunted" type of game: if you have some notion of where the creature is, a good beam construction creates safety. The prototype as it is is a bit shallow and short, but I can imagine that one could expand this idea to something more interesting.
As always, any feedback is appreciated. Congratulations to everyone who finished this Pyweek!
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reidrac on
2013/09/09 05:55:
Your screenshot reminds me of Mirror Magic (I played a lot some years ago, one of the few interesting games for Linux back in the day). Well done!You always came up with something great even if you have only a day to work on it; looking forward to play your game when I have some free time :)