Evoventure

An adventure game based on Evoland that implements topics learned in an introductory graphics course.

Premise

You are a renderer in a world that constantly changes appearance. Throughout your various quests and explorations, you will discover new graphical enhancements that will expand where and what you can do in the game. The world is extensive, but your rendering capabilities are not. In the beginning you will be limited to a capped number of graphical enhancements that can be active at a time. The combinations you choose will affect how you can interact with the environment.

Developer Documentation

As assigned, the primary theme for this game is a journey. The fact users have to choose between different graphical enhancements allows us to adopt the previous Ludum Dare theme of sacrifice. Added plus!

Setting

Cyber-punk/Foresty See Horizon Zero Dawn

Primary Features

(In order of priority)

2D Platforming
Birds-eye 2D Exploration
Title screen
Save/load
3rd Person Control
Combat
Sound and Music
Animations
Different locomotion styles

Secondary Features

Shaders
Agents
Perlin noise
Terrain generation
Multiple input channels (keyboard, gamepad, VR, etc.)
NPR to PBR transitions
Flying
Lighting
Shadows
Subdivision curves/surfaces

Figure 1: In the beginning, up to three graphical enhancements are loaded into empty rendering slots (the middle boxes in the diagram). Depending on the equipped enhancements, the rendering could help or harm the player. Imagine a user has four graphical enhancements: 3rd person control, combat, sound and music, and animation. An example of a valid combination would be 3rd person control, sound and music, and animations, but the user would have to figure out ways to avoid combat because they would not be able to fight. Some enhancements are obviously incompatible like 2D platforming and 3rd person controls, so keep this in mind when implementing error checking.