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[Release] Gator Time - VR Jam Project

wilbrierly
Honored Guest
Hi Everyone!
Just wanted to share what I made for the VR Jam. This was super fun and a great experience! So here it is!

This is Gator Time!


I wanted to make a game that gives you the feeling of being inside a cartoon, so the graphics are a mix of 2d and 3d graphics.

You start off playing as Larry Gator, you are in the first person perspective


This makes things difficult though because being a gator you have a long mouth, which makes things tricky if the world in it happens to have platforms and obstacles in it


So you meet a strange fellow who tells you about another option


He tells you about third person cameras and how they can follow you around and beam what they see directly into your brain so you can see yourself in the third person perspective
and he gives you his extra one, so you try it on!


You try it more and go on a little adventure


The story goes on and you eventually end up going on an adventure to collect pies


Watch out for obstacles!


And monsters!!!


Now with your new third person camera life is much easier
You eventually end up climbing really really high...(this part is super fun!)


Mixing the 2d and 3d worlds with the Oculus is super fun!


Some notes on the game
    * Everything in this was made by myself, I did the graphics, programming, music, voices, and all that stuff. So you might find a random bug here and there. The only thing I didn't make was the Tuscany Skybox prefab
    * If for some reason you get stuck press the home key and that should reset the level.
    * If you want to skip the whole story part and get right to collecting pies you can do that in the options section
    * Make sure you increase pizza levels in the options too
    * The menus are being a little weird I need to fix them for sure(as well as other things I'll constantly be tweaking)
    * This will work right out of the box with a gamepad too (it's really fun to play with that)



Here is the original video I made for the second milestone too



And here is a download to the game! I made a little update to it this morning so it's slightly different than what I submitted to the jam yesterday.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3VwG2HXqnPBX1IwRjVpRzBITkU/edit?usp=sharing

I hope you enjoy the game! Thanks so much for checking it out!
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RedLadderGames
Honored Guest
Here is the stream where Bruce played your game (among 20 others).
http://www.twitch.tv/cymaticbruce/b/452634333

He is trying to play every submission and this was the second stream.

Here you can find the game list (unofficial) with some more info:
http://vrwiki.wikispaces.com/VR+Jam+2013

We should (hopefully) be getting the third stream tomorrow!

boone188
Honored Guest
"RedLadderGames" wrote:
Here is the stream where Bruce played your game (among 20 others).
http://www.twitch.tv/cymaticbruce/b/452634333

He is trying to play every submission and this was the second stream.

Here you can find the game list (unofficial) with some more info:
http://vrwiki.wikispaces.com/VR+Jam+2013

We should (hopefully) be getting the third stream tomorrow!

Yeah he said it should be happening around 5 pm on Friday. Really hoping he gets around to my game.

EMcNeill
Honored Guest
"wilbrierly" wrote:
"EMcNeill" wrote:
Watching Cymatic Bruce play this one was awesome. 😄


Woah I didn't know he played it! Do you have a link? I love his channel! I looked for it and couldn't seem to find it

I was honored to have RockleeSmile play it today and he sang the tunes from the game, he's got a great voice!
here's the link if you want to check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4atVgf9sXU


You did Soda Drinker Pro, right? I can't say I played it, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. 🙂

I'll have to see if RockLeeSmile is interested in trying out my jam game! He's been really cool to indies before.

wilbrierly
Honored Guest
"EMcNeill" wrote:
"wilbrierly" wrote:
"EMcNeill" wrote:
Watching Cymatic Bruce play this one was awesome. 😄


Woah I didn't know he played it! Do you have a link? I love his channel! I looked for it and couldn't seem to find it

I was honored to have RockleeSmile play it today and he sang the tunes from the game, he's got a great voice!
here's the link if you want to check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4atVgf9sXU


You did Soda Drinker Pro, right? I can't say I played it, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. 🙂

I'll have to see if RockLeeSmile is interested in trying out my jam game! He's been really cool to indies before.



Yup that's me 🙂 I'm working on the Oculus version of Soda Drinker too, it's coming along nicely! It's really fun to drink a simulated Soda with the Rift!

wilbrierly
Honored Guest
"boone188" wrote:
"RedLadderGames" wrote:
Here is the stream where Bruce played your game (among 20 others).
http://www.twitch.tv/cymaticbruce/b/452634333

He is trying to play every submission and this was the second stream.

Here you can find the game list (unofficial) with some more info:
http://vrwiki.wikispaces.com/VR+Jam+2013

We should (hopefully) be getting the third stream tomorrow!

Yeah he said it should be happening around 5 pm on Friday. Really hoping he gets around to my game.


Thanks for the links! I'll be sure to watch everyone else games too, this is really cool that he's doing this!

wilbrierly
Honored Guest
Ends up I made a version that people without the Rift can play too. It's a little different from the Rift Version (it was meant specifically for the Rift so there are some features that only work with the Rift) but I figured I'd put out this version to see what people thought of it too. Today one of my favorite Youtube Channels (Indie Impressions) made a video on the game. Here's a link if you want to check it out.


Tummler
Honored Guest
This is really fun, love the style. The "Gator Time" song at the beginning is catchy, haha.

Baconstrip
Honored Guest
Its cute.. but I really really really want the gator snout to move with my head! That would up the playability for me by a ton 🙂

Also, definitely needs controller and movement speed support 🙂

Cute though, I really love the idea of having a snout like that. Kinda neat 🙂

wilbrierly
Honored Guest
"Baconstrip" wrote:
Its cute.. but I really really really want the gator snout to move with my head! That would up the playability for me by a ton 🙂

Also, definitely needs controller and movement speed support 🙂

Cute though, I really love the idea of having a snout like that. Kinda neat 🙂


Thanks so much for checking it out! I'll definitely have the snout move with your head in the next build (it's weird it was working properly before but for some reason in the latest build it wasn't connecting) I'll absolutely have that fixed soon. As well as controller and movement speed support.

Thanks again!

Frooxius
Honored Guest
I really like the specific art style of this game and the narration, it reminded me of some click-n-point adventures I played as a kid, so I had weird nostalgia feeling during this game 😄 I find it interesting to mix 2D platformer with Oculus Rift, with the ability to look ahead.

A couple of suggestions if I may though: The 3D first person camera beginning uses mouse for both horizontal and vertical camera movement, which made me really sick. I think it's best to use mouse only for horizontal movement and head tracking for vertical (looking up and down). The snout also looked like it was several meters long and wide. Have you tried making it smaller (ideally in the real world size), but putting it closer to the camera, so it doesn't look huge in the Rift and still blocks your view?

Also the walk speed in 2D mode seems to change based on where I'm looking at.

Lastly, I think it would be good to focus to blend the 3D and 2D style together, to me, it felt a bit "messy", the 2D and 3D element styles didn't match that well visually, but that's just my opinion ^^'

Anyway, I enjoyed it and I wonder what will happen next,
when the cloud guy got attacked at the end
😄