Our Game: Warp Syndrome

Warp Syndrome is a platform game ambiented in a medieval-fantasy setting based on the mechanic of a teleportation granade that allows fluid movement, rad tricks and fun exploration of the map.
It has been made over the course of 4 months as a project for a university subject by a small team of students.

Our team

Our team, the Warp Syndrome Dev. Team, consists of 2 members, both of them students at CITM coursing 2nd year of the Videogame Design and Development university degree.

Member	Contributions	Portrait
Ferran-Roger Basart i Bosch	Has been in charge of implementing pathfinding, creating all the UML's, making the animation XML, working on enemy movement and code to kill the player. He has also made the UI elements and structured the menus.
Oscar Pérez Martín	Has been in charge of implementing Brofiler, the entity and enemy system, the file system with xml, the new grenade system, saving and loading, creating all the UML's , implementing dt in the game, implementing the logic of the game/menu loop, transitions and also implementing the console and coins.

Disclamer: These have been the major areas of work for each member, and the ones that each of them understands better but they have been working toghether in all the items listed before during the course of the 4 months that the project has lasted for.

Core Subsystems and innovation

The game core mechanic is teleportation. The player uses a throwable granade to surpass obstacles to reach the end of each level while avoiding enemies. The grenade can also kill enemies if thrown directly at them. While exploring the map the player can collect coins, wich will increase his score even more.

Compared to what was asked for the assignment, this project comes with extra content: * The project can sustain and manage and indefinite amount of maps, it's not limited to two. With F4 you can cycle along the "x" amount of maps. * In the movement section, the game comes with walljump, wallsliding and the already mentioned teleport mechanics. * The volume of the game can be adjusted and saved * The game features a loading screen in-between maps * Comes with the first bit of the intended narrative told through visual clues (in the first level, the three imprisoned black eyes, with the fourth missing at the left-lower corner. On the second level, the origins of the eye are told at the highest point of the "normal route" (since what is found higher is the black eye itself), conveying how it was born, grew uncontrollably, and was sealed by four figures. At the end of the level, it's shown how, eventually, on of the guardians was killed, represented by the eyes over the door that brings the player to the next level). * The game console remembers previous sent commands and those can be summoned by the up and down arrows when in the console. * The requiered commands have been expanded accepting diferent number of arguments, and we have added some more which you can see by typing “list” in the console. * There are also save and load buttons on the pause menu. The load one is only avaliable when there is content saved.

Repository and Download

Repository Link

Last Release

Gameplay

How to Play

Installation

Currently there is no installation required, just open the .exe provided in the download file

Usage

Advice: if when throwing the first grenade, the player freezes, execute the .exe with the administrator permission.
The enemies, in the first level only, are not dangerous. They are intended to be harmless to try out the grenade against them and help with the game narrative.

General Controls

• ESC: Opens/Closes the pause menu while in game.
• Grave (º): Toggles the console.
• Tab: Iterates between UI elements.
• Keypad (-): Decrease the volume. Volume can also be decreased in the menus.
• Keypad (+): Increase the volume. Volume can also be increased in the menus.

Debug Controls

• F1: Start from the first level
• F2: Start from the second level
• F3: Starts from the beginning of the level
• F4: Changes to the next level
• F5: Saves the current state
• F6: Loads the previous state (since the maps are so big, there may be a slight delay if the save was at a different map)
• F7: Switches between frame information and map information
• F8: Enters UI debug mode
• F9: Show / unshow colliders and pathfinding
• F10: Activate / deactivate God Mode
• F11: Enables / disables frame limit at 30 fps

Player Controls

• Movement (keyboard / gamepad):
  • W/Space: Jump
  • A: Move to the left
  • D: Move to the right
  • Special movement:
• Press Left Mouse Button: Determines the grenade throwing angle, moved by the mouse
  • J/ Release Left Mouse Button: Throws the grenade
  • K/Right Mouse Button: Teleports to the grenade
  • L/Middle Mouse Button: Makes the thrown grenade disappear
  • W/Space (while sliding on a wall): wall-jump

Console Commands

• “quit”: quits the game
• “list”: displays a list of all the avaliable commands
• “map” : loads the map with the given name
• “fps”: shows the current fps cap
• “fps” : changes the cap of fps of the game to the given amount with a range between 30-120 fps
• “god_mode”: toggles god mode
• “god_mode” <”on”>: activates god mode
• “god_mode” <”off”>: disables god mode
• “save”: saves the current state of the game
• “load”:loads the current state of the game

Credits

Credits to various artists who put their creations at public use:

Bart for "The adventure begins": https://www.patreon.com/opengameart
Phillip Miller for "battle_music_01-loop": https://opengameart.org/users/pmiller
Matriax for the inca-themed tileset: https://kronbits.itch.io/
ansimuz for his background used in parallax and his living tissue tileset: https://ansimuz.itch.io/magic-cliffs-environment
and also for his gothicvania sprites: https://ansimuz.itch.io/gothicvania-patreon-collection
Jetrel for his stone tilesets: https://opengameart.org/users/jetrel
rvros for his character animations: https://rvros.itch.io/animated-pixel-hero
Gamemaseter audio for the grenade teleport sound: https://sonniss.com/sound-effects/magic-spell-sounds/
Soundrangers for the death sound: https://sonniss.com/sound-effects/hydrology-bubbles-splashes/
Elthen for his elemental pixelart sprites: https://elthen.itch.io/ice-elemental
Thanks to the user KorgMS2000B at freesound.org for providing the button click sound: https://freesound.org/people/KorgMS2000B/sounds/54405/


Special mention to Jalvaviel, who helped with preliminary sketches, mood and color palette of the art created for the levels.

License

SDL license:
Simple DirectMedia Layer
Copyright (C) 1997-2016 Sam Lantinga slouken@libsdl.org
SDL_image: An example image loading library for use with SDL
Copyright (C) 1997-2013 Sam Lantinga slouken@libsdl.org
SDL_mixer: An audio mixer library based on the SDL library
Copyright (C) 1997-2013 Sam Lantinga slouken@libsdl.org

This software is provided ‘as-is’, without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

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