Lynch

Cat-astrophe Games Gamejam 2022-12-16.

Download a ready compiled version (for Windows and Linux) from https://cat-astrophe-games.itch.io/lynch .

Screenshots

Compile by:

CGE editor. Just use menu item "Compile".
Or use CGE command-line build tool. Run castle-engine compile in this directory.
Or use Lazarus. Open in Lazarus lynch_standalone.lpi file and compile / run from Lazarus. Make sure to first register CGE Lazarus packages.

Goal was:

A short "walking simulator" with simple puzzles.
The main feature: a 3D house surrounded by some foliage, with "night time" lighting (lanterns, hard shadows, starry sky, chirp-chirp and wind blowing sfx).
The main work will be modeling in Blender.
In Castle Game Engine: a simple setup of scenes, sounds, mirrors and puzzles and testing that it looks as good as in Blender.

Results:

3D house and surroundings, with sensible proportions.
After gamejam small additions:
- Sounds: Ambience, footsteps, statues.
- Simple mechanics of creepy statues.

Graphics:

Tree model has to be replaced with something better. Current tree is just autogenerated and brutally simplified with Decimate, looks bad.
Maybe add additional bushes, to have really a lot of foliage.
Materials, textures.
Shadows.
Night sky (stars, moon) skybox.
Lanterns, bright but very local lights.
Overall: "night aura" feeling is missing, it's at best a late desaturated sunset.
Fountain and lake - mats mirrors.
Roof looks bad after Decimate, it should be made low-poly by correctly modelling very low-poly pieces.

Sound effects:

Code:

Game mechanics; now there's nothing interactive.
- Additional weird part in-house was planned.
- We wanted puzzle to open the gate, to get key to house, to pass the hall of mirrors...